无需验证器,让大模型自评推理质量并提升泛化能力
RLPR: Extrapolating RLVR to General Domains without Verifiers
- 用模型自身生成答案的概率作为奖励信号,实现无验证器的强化学习
- 在四个通用领域和三个数学基准上均显著提升推理能力,最高领先7.6分
- 适合希望降低依赖外部验证器、提升模型泛化性的研究者与工程师
基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)在提升大模型推理能力方面展现出巨大潜力,但其成功主要局限于数学与代码领域。这一局限源于对领域特定验证器的严重依赖,导致复杂度高且难以扩展。本文提出一种无需验证器的框架RLPR,核心洞察是:大模型生成正确自由形式答案的内在概率,直接反映了其对推理过程质量的自我评估。RLPR利用模型自身对标准答案的词元概率作为奖励信号,并在训练中最大化期望奖励。为应对该噪声概率奖励的高方差问题,提出prob-to-reward转换与稳定化方法,确保奖励精准稳定。在四个通用领域基准和三个数学基准上的实验表明,RLPR在Gemma、Llama、Qwen等模型上均持续提升推理性能。尤其在TheoremQA上比VeriFree高出7.6分,在Minerva上高出7.5分;在七个基准平均表现超越依赖验证器的General-Reasoner达1.6分。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) demonstrates promising potential in advancing the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. However, its success remains largely confined to mathematical and code domains. This primary limitation stems from the heavy reliance on domain-specific verifiers, which results in prohibitive complexity and limited scalability. To address the challenge, our key observation is that LLM's intrinsic probability of generating a correct free-form answer directly indicates its own evaluation of the reasoning reward (i.e., how well the reasoning process leads to the correct answer). Building on this insight, we propose RLPR, a simple verifier-free framework that extrapolates RLVR to broader general domains. RLPR uses the LLM's own token probability scores for reference answers as the reward signal and maximizes the expected reward during training. We find that addressing the high variance of this noisy probability reward is crucial to make it work, and propose prob-to-reward and stabilizing methods to ensure a precise and stable reward from LLM intrinsic probabilities. Comprehensive experiments in four general-domain benchmarks and three mathematical benchmarks show that RLPR consistently improves reasoning capabilities in both areas for Gemma, Llama, and Qwen based models. Notably, RLPR outperforms concurrent VeriFree by 7.6 points on TheoremQA and 7.5 points on Minerva, and even surpasses strong verifier-model-dependent approaches General-Reasoner by 1.6 average points across seven benchmarks.
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