arXiv:2509.04575cs.LG2025-09被引 10

让大模型通过自我迭代不断优化解题,无需预先设定尝试次数。

Bootstrapping Task Spaces for Self-Improvement

  • 利用自迭代过程中的关键中间状态,动态构建任务空间进行训练。
  • 仅需单步迭代数据,却能在推理时实现多步优化,性能超越训练时平均迭代深度。
  • 适用于数学竞赛、工具调用和工程任务,适合追求模型自进化能力的研究者。

许多任务的进步源于对先前解法的反复修正。训练能在推理时持续自我改进的智能体是强化学习的重要目标,但传统方法假设最大迭代次数固定,既低效又武断。本文提出探索性迭代(ExIt),一种利用自迭代任务递归结构的自适应课程强化学习方法,仅需训练单步迭代样本,即可使大模型在推理阶段实现多步自我优化。ExIt通过选择性采样每轮中最具信息量的中间部分历史作为新任务起点,逐步扩展任务空间,并可结合显式探索机制维持任务多样性。在多个领域(包括竞赛数学、多轮工具使用和机器学习工程)验证表明,无论从单一还是多个任务实例出发,基于ExIt训练的策略均能在未见任务上表现出强大的推理时自改进能力,并可在超出训练中平均迭代深度的步数预算下持续提升性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Progress in many task domains emerges from repeated revisions to previous solution attempts. Training agents that can reliably self-improve over such sequences at inference-time is a natural target for reinforcement learning (RL), yet the naive approach assumes a fixed maximum iteration depth, which can be both costly and arbitrary. We present Exploratory Iteration (ExIt), a family of autocurriculum RL methods that directly exploits the recurrent structure of self-improvement tasks to train LLMs to perform multi-step self-improvement at inference-time while only training on the most informative single-step iterations. ExIt grows a task space by selectively sampling the most informative intermediate, partial histories encountered during an episode for continued iteration, treating these starting points as new self-iteration task instances to train a self-improvement policy. ExIt can further pair with explicit exploration mechanisms to sustain greater task diversity. Across several domains, encompassing competition math, multi-turn tool-use, and machine learning engineering, we demonstrate that ExIt strategies, starting from either a single or many task instances, can produce policies exhibiting strong inference-time self-improvement on held-out task instances, and the ability to iterate towards higher performance over a step budget extending beyond the average iteration depth encountered during training.

自迭代强化学习大模型自我改进

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