用对比式批判训练验证器,让大模型更准更诚实判断答案。
Critique to Verify: Accurate and Honest Test-Time Scaling with RL-Trained Verifiers
- 通过对比生成答案与真实答案,生成高质量批判数据
- 在数学和推理任务上准确率超越多数投票,且更敢拒绝不确定问题
- 适合需要高可靠性的自动推理系统使用
通过解题采样与聚合实现测试时扩展已成为提升大语言模型推理性能的关键范式。尽管常采用奖励模型选择,但其难以识别少数却正确的答案,效果常止步于简单多数投票。我们指出,这一局限源于验证器训练中缺乏有信息量的批判信号。为此,提出Mirror-Critique框架:利用小规模指令微调模型,通过拒绝采样合成高质量批判数据,使验证器不仅知道哪里错,还理解为何错。该合成数据用于冷启动强化学习验证(RLVR)过程,进一步提升验证能力。最终的Mirror-Verifier对每个候选答案生成多条批判,并聚合为验证分,用于加权投票或选择性拒答。实验表明,其解题准确率显著优于多数投票,且提升了模型在能力边界外的诚实拒答能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Test-time scaling via solution sampling and aggregation has become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). While reward model selection is commonly employed in this approach, it often fails to identify minority-yet-correct answers, which limits its effectiveness beyond that of simple majority voting. We argue that this limitation stems from a lack of informative critique signals during verifier training. To bridge this gap, we introduce Mirror-Critique, a framework that trains a verifier with informative critiques. Our key insight is to leverage the rich critique signal by contrasting model-generated solutions with ground-truth solutions. We deploy a small instruction-tuned model to synthesize high-quality critique data with rejection sampling that teaches the verifier not only what is wrong, but also why. The synthetic data is used to cold-start the LLMs in the RLVR process to further improve the verification ability. The resulting Mirror-Verifier is deployed to evaluate candidate solutions by generating multiple critiques per solution, aggregating them into a verify score used for weighted voting or selective abstention. The experimental results show that our Mirror-Verifier significantly outperforms majority voting in terms of solution accuracy and also improves the solver's honesty to recognize and abstain from answering beyond its capability boundaries.
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