arXiv:2507.16814cs.LGcs.CV2025-07NeurIPS被引 12

用半离策略强化学习让视觉语言模型学会深度推理,显著提升复杂任务表现。

Semi-off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Slow-Thinking Reasoning

  • 结合在线视觉理解与离线语言推理,构建半离策略行为模型。
  • 在多基准测试中使38B模型平均提升8.50%,超越部分闭源模型。
  • 适合需要强多模态推理能力的研究与应用,如数学和奥赛题求解。

将视觉慢思考推理能力融入大型视觉语言模型(LVLMs)对于解决复杂多模态任务至关重要。然而,由于LVLM主要通过视觉-语言对齐训练,采用在线强化学习(RL)发展慢思考能力受限于初始能力范围。离线强化学习虽可突破当前策略,但直接从外部模型蒸馏轨迹可能导致因视觉感知差异引发的视觉幻觉。为此,本文提出SOPHIA——一种简单且可扩展的半离策略强化学习框架,用于视觉语言慢思考推理。SOPHIA通过融合可训练LVLM的在线视觉理解与语言模型的离线慢思考推理,构建半离策略行为模型;为推理过程分配基于结果的奖励,并将视觉奖励反向传播。随后,利用反向传播的奖励,通过离线强化学习算法使LVLM从获得的推理轨迹中学习慢思考推理能力。在InternVL2.5和InternVL3.0(8B、38B规模)上的大量实验表明该方法有效。值得注意的是,SOPHIA使InternVL3.0-38B平均提升8.50%,在多个多模态推理基准上达到开源模型最优性能,甚至在MathVision和OlympiadBench挑战性任务上超越部分闭源模型(如GPT-4.1),pass@1准确率分别达49.08%和49.95%。分析显示,SOPHIA优于监督微调和直接在线强化学习,为后续在线训练提供更优策略初始化。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Enhancing large vision-language models (LVLMs) with visual slow-thinking reasoning is crucial for solving complex multimodal tasks. However, since LVLMs are mainly trained with vision-language alignment, it is difficult to adopt on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) to develop the slow thinking ability because the rollout space is restricted by its initial abilities. Off-policy RL offers a way to go beyond the current policy, but directly distilling trajectories from external models may cause visual hallucinations due to mismatched visual perception abilities across models. To address these issues, this paper proposes SOPHIA, a simple and scalable Semi-Off-Policy RL for vision-language slow-tHInking reAsoning. SOPHIA builds a semi-off-policy behavior model by combining on-policy visual understanding from a trainable LVLM with off-policy slow-thinking reasoning from a language model, assigns outcome-based rewards to reasoning, and propagates visual rewards backward. Then LVLM learns slow-thinking reasoning ability from the obtained reasoning trajectories using propagated rewards via off-policy RL algorithms. Extensive experiments with InternVL2.5 and InternVL3.0 with 8B and 38B sizes show the effectiveness of SOPHIA. Notably, SOPHIA improves InternVL3.0-38B by 8.50% in average, reaching state-of-the-art performance among open-source LVLMs on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks, and even outperforms some closed-source models (e.g., GPT-4.1) on the challenging MathVision and OlympiadBench, achieving 49.08% and 49.95% pass@1 accuracy, respectively. Analysis shows SOPHIA outperforms supervised fine-tuning and direct on-policy RL methods, offering a better policy initialization for further on-policy training.

视觉语言强化学习慢思考多模态推理

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