arXiv:2509.16548cs.LGcs.CL2025-09NeurIPS被引 9

用自去噪方法降低蒙特卡洛标注噪声,让小模型也能高效训练强过程奖励模型。

SCAN: Self-Denoising Monte Carlo Annotation for Robust Process Reward Learning

  • 用自去噪策略生成高质量合成标注,减少蒙特卡洛估计的高噪声问题。
  • 仅需原方法6%推理成本,使模型在ProcessBench上F1提升39.2点(19.9→59.1)。
  • 适合追求低成本、可扩展过程奖励建模的研究者和工业应用

过程奖励模型(PRMs)能对大语言模型的推理步骤进行细粒度评估,在数学推理等复杂任务中表现优异。但其训练依赖昂贵的人工标注数据,而蒙特卡洛(MC)生成的合成数据噪声高,易导致过拟合。本文分析了MC合成数据的噪声分布,发现标注模型常因能力限制低估或高估步骤正确性。基于此,提出自去噪蒙特卡洛标注(SCAN)框架:轻量级模型(如1.5B参数)通过自去噪策略即可生成高质量标注,使PRM仅需原方法6%的推理成本便达到更优性能;结合鲁棒学习策略,模型在ProcessBench上F1从19.9提升至59.1(+39.2),且仅用紧凑合成数据即超越依赖大规模人工标注(如PRM800K)的基线。随着合成数据规模扩大,性能仍持续提升,证明了SCAN在低成本、可扩展、抗噪训练方面的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Process reward models (PRMs) offer fine-grained, step-level evaluations that facilitate deeper reasoning processes in large language models (LLMs), proving effective in complex tasks like mathematical reasoning. However, developing PRMs is challenging due to the high cost and limited scalability of human-annotated data. Synthetic data from Monte Carlo (MC) estimation is a promising alternative but suffers from a high noise ratio, which can cause overfitting and hinder large-scale training. In this work, we conduct a preliminary study on the noise distribution in synthetic data from MC estimation, identifying that annotation models tend to both underestimate and overestimate step correctness due to limitations in their annotation capabilities. Building on these insights, we propose Self-Denoising Monte Carlo Annotation (SCAN), an efficient data synthesis and noise-tolerant learning framework. Our key findings indicate that: (1) Even lightweight models (e.g., 1.5B parameters) can produce high-quality annotations through a self-denoising strategy, enabling PRMs to achieve superior performance with only 6% the inference cost required by vanilla MC estimation. (2) With our robust learning strategy, PRMs can effectively learn from this weak supervision, achieving a 39.2 F1 score improvement (from 19.9 to 59.1) in ProcessBench. Despite using only a compact synthetic dataset, our models surpass strong baselines, including those trained on large-scale human-annotated datasets such as PRM800K. Furthermore, performance continues to improve as we scale up the synthetic data, highlighting the potential of SCAN for scalable, cost-efficient, and robust PRM training.

过程奖励合成数据去噪高效训练

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