arXiv:2509.23285cs.AI2025-09被引 17

通过自演化偏好学习,让大模型更聪明地用工具推理。

Toward Effective Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Self-Evolved Preference Learning

  • 基于信息熵变化设计工具调用策略,引导模型合理使用工具。
  • 在10个数据集上显著提升工具推理效率与准确性。
  • 适合研究大模型工具调用与推理优化的开发者和研究人员。

工具集成推理(TIR)使大语言模型通过调用外部工具提升内部推理能力。然而,现有模型常出现工具使用不足或过度、工具调用后过度思考等问题。本文从信息熵角度分析工具调用对推理过程的影响,发现工具结果会显著改变后续推理的信息熵,且熵值随工具调用次数变化。基于此,提出Tool-Light框架,包含连续自演化采样构建数据集,结合普通采样与熵引导采样,并设定严格正负样本筛选标准。训练采用两阶段流程:监督微调(SFT)与自演化直接偏好优化(DPO)。在10个数据集上的实验表明,该方法显著提升了模型执行TIR任务的效率与准确性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) enables large language models (LLMs) to improve their internal reasoning ability by integrating external tools. However, models employing TIR often display suboptimal behaviors, such as insufficient or excessive tool usage and overthinking after tool calls. The challenge of incentivizing LLMs to perform TIR efficiently and accurately, while stabilizing the reasoning process, remains an open question. In this paper, we start by exploring the impact of tool calls on model reasoning from the perspective of information entropy. Our findings indicate that tool call results lead to a distinct change in the information entropy of subsequent reasoning, with the overall entropy of the reasoning chain varying based on the number of tool calls. Building on these insights, we propose Tool-Light, a framework designed to encourage LLMs to perform TIR efficiently and accurately. Our framework includes dataset construction and multi-stage fine-tuning. For dataset construction, we employ continuous self-evolved sampling using the fine-tuned model, integrating both vanilla sampling and entropy-guided sampling. Besides, we establish strict criteria for selecting positive-negative pairs during sampling. The training process involves a two-stage approach, comprising Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Self-Evolved Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). Experimental results on 10 datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of Tool-Light, significantly improving the model's efficiency in executing TIR tasks.

工具调用推理优化偏好学习

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