arXiv:2508.03333cs.CLcs.AI2025-08被引 1

让多个模型协作答题,显著提升大模型推理性能。

CTTS: Collective Test-Time Scaling

  • 用多个模型和多个评分器协同决策,突破单模型瓶颈。
  • 在7个基准上比最佳单模型方法高4.82%,超GPT-4.1达7.06%。
  • 适合追求高性能推理的开发者与研究者使用。

测试时扩展(TTS)作为一种无需训练的提升大语言模型(LLM)性能的方法已崭露头角。然而,现有方法如Best-of-N和Self-Consistency受限于单一模型与单一评分器的交互范式(SA-SR),存在性能天花板。受集体智能启发,本文提出集体测试时扩展(CTTS)。系统比较了三种多模型交互模式:单代理多评分器(SA-MR)、多代理单评分器(MA-SR)和多代理多评分器(MA-MR),实验表明MA-MR始终最优。基于此,提出CTTS-MM框架,集成两项创新:(1)代理协作搜索(ACS),从候选池中选取最优模型组合;(2)评分器混合策略(MoR),结合先验评分器集成选择(PRES)算法选出最优集成。在七个主流基准上的评估显示,CTTS-MM显著优于领先单模型方法(+4.82%),超越旗舰私有模型GPT-4.1(+7.06%)及开源模型。结果证明集体扩展在推动大模型推理边界上的巨大潜力。代码将发布于https://github.com/magent4aci/CTTS-MM。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a promising, training-free approach for enhancing large language model (LLM) performance. However, the efficacy of existing methods, such as Best-of-N and Self-Consistency, is fundamentally constrained by the dominant single test-time scaling (STTS) paradigm, which relies on a single LLM agent interacting with a single reward model (SA-SR). Inspired by recent work showing that collective methods can surpass the performance ceiling of individual models, we introduce Collective Test-Time Scaling (CTTS). First, we systematically investigate three primary interaction paradigms of existing multiple models: single-agent-multi-reward (SA-MR), multi-agent-single-reward (MA-SR), and multi-agent-multi-reward (MA-MR). Extensive experiments reveal that the MA-MR paradigm is consistently superior. Based on this finding, we further propose CTTS-MM, a novel framework that operationalizes multi-agent and multi-reward collaboration. CTTS-MM integrates two key technical contributions: (1) for agent collaboration, an Agent Collaboration Search (ACS) that identifies the most effective combination of LLMs from a candidate pool; and (2) for reward model collaboration, a Mixture of Reward Models (MoR) strategy that leverages a Prior Reward model Ensemble Selection (PRES) algorithm to select the optimal ensemble. Evaluations across seven mainstream benchmarks demonstrate that CTTS-MM significantly outperforms leading STTS methods (+4.82% over Best-of-N) and surpasses even flagship proprietary LLMs (+7.06% over GPT-4.1) and open-source LLMs. These results highlight the substantial potential of collective scaling to push the frontier of LLM inference. Code will be released at https://github.com/magent4aci/CTTS-MM.

大模型推理测试时扩展多模型协作

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