让模型自动生成奖励并不断优化自身,省去人工标注和外部奖励模型。
SPARK: Synergistic Policy And Reward Co-Evolving Framework
- 模型在训练中同时学习生成奖励与改进自身输出,形成闭环反馈。
- 7B模型在推理任务上平均提升9.7%,奖励任务提升12.1%。
- 无需人类偏好数据,适合需要低成本、高可扩展性的智能系统。
近期大语言模型(LLMs)和大视觉语言模型(LVLMs)越来越多地采用强化学习(RL)进行后预训练,如用于客观任务的可验证奖励强化学习(RLVR),以及用于主观任务的人类反馈强化学习(RLHF)。然而,RLHF成本高昂且易出现奖励-策略不匹配问题,而RLVR在每次更新后仍会丢弃轨迹和正确性信号,造成监督信息浪费。为此,我们提出协同策略与奖励共进化框架SPARK,一种高效、在线、稳定的RLVR改进方法。SPARK不丢弃轨迹和正确性数据,而是将其重用于训练模型自身作为生成式奖励模型。该辅助训练结合点对点奖励得分、成对比较及基于进一步反思响应的评估等目标,使模型学会评估并改进自身输出。该过程消除了对独立奖励模型和昂贵的人类偏好数据的需求。SPARK建立正向共进化反馈环:奖励精度提升带来更优策略梯度,进而生成更高品质轨迹,进一步优化奖励模型。统一框架支持测试时通过自我反思实现规模扩展,无需外部奖励模型及其相关成本。实验表明,SPARK在多个LLM和LVLM模型及多类推理、奖励与通用基准上均取得显著性能提升。例如,SPARK-VL-7B在7个推理基准上平均提升9.7%,在2个奖励基准上提升12.1%,在8个通用基准上提升1.5%,展现出强鲁棒性与广泛泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) increasingly use Reinforcement Learning (RL) for post-pretraining, such as RL with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for objective tasks and RL from Human Feedback (RLHF) for subjective tasks. However, RLHF incurs high costs and potential reward-policy mismatch due to reliance on human preferences, while RLVR still wastes supervision by discarding rollouts and correctness signals after each update. To address these challenges, we introduce the Synergistic Policy And Reward Co-Evolving Framework (SPARK), an efficient, on-policy, and stable method that builds on RLVR. Instead of discarding rollouts and correctness data, SPARK recycles this valuable information to simultaneously train the model itself as a generative reward model. This auxiliary training uses a mix of objectives, such as pointwise reward score, pairwise comparison, and evaluation conditioned on further-reflection responses, to teach the model to evaluate and improve its own responses. Our process eliminates the need for a separate reward model and costly human preference data. SPARK creates a positive co-evolving feedback loop: improved reward accuracy yields better policy gradients, which in turn produce higher-quality rollouts that further refine the reward model. Our unified framework supports test-time scaling via self-reflection without external reward models and their associated costs. We show that SPARK achieves significant performance gains on multiple LLM and LVLM models and multiple reasoning, reward models, and general benchmarks. For example, SPARK-VL-7B achieves an average 9.7% gain on 7 reasoning benchmarks, 12.1% on 2 reward benchmarks, and 1.5% on 8 general benchmarks over the baselines, demonstrating robustness and broad generalization.
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