arXiv:2510.14942cs.AI2025-10被引 11

用树搜索和外部工具验证,让大模型推理更准确可信。

GroundedPRM: Tree-Guided and Fidelity-Aware Process Reward Modeling for Step-Level Reasoning

  • 通过蒙特卡洛树搜索构建结构化推理路径,精准分配步骤奖励。
  • 用外部工具验证每步正确性,避免大模型幻觉导致的错误监督。
  • 仅需4万条自标注数据,性能超人类标注的推理模型。

过程奖励模型(PRM)旨在通过监督中间步骤来提升大语言模型的多步推理能力,但高质量标注数据稀缺,现有方法依赖昂贵的人工标注、易出错的自评估或仅基于结果推断的蒙特卡洛估计,导致奖励噪声大、事实一致性差、与步骤级目标不匹配。为此,我们提出GroundedPRM:利用蒙特卡洛树搜索构建结构化推理路径以实现细粒度信用分配;通过外部工具验证每一步,提供执行层面的正确性信号;设计融合工具验证与树搜索反馈的混合奖励聚合机制;并将奖励信号格式化为带解释的生成结构,提升可解释性与与指令微调模型的兼容性。该模型仅用4万条自动标注样本(仅为最优自动标注模型数据量的10%),在ProcessBench上平均性能相对提升26%。使用其进行贪婪搜索时,表现甚至超过人工标注训练的模型,为高质量过程推理提供了可扩展且可验证的新路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Process Reward Models (PRMs) aim to improve multi-step reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) by supervising intermediate steps and identifying errors. However, building effective PRMs remains challenging due to the lack of scalable, high-quality annotations. Existing approaches rely on costly human labeling, LLM-based self-evaluation that is prone to hallucination, or Monte Carlo (MC) estimation, which infers step quality solely from rollout outcomes and often introduces noisy, misaligned supervision due to credit misattribution. These issues result in three core limitations: noisy rewards, low factual fidelity, and misalignment with step-level reasoning objectives. To address these challenges, we introduce GroundedPRM, a tree-guided and fidelity-aware framework for automatic process supervision. To reduce reward noise and enable fine-grained credit assignment, we construct structured reasoning paths via Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). To eliminate hallucinated supervision, we validate each intermediate step using an external tool, providing execution-grounded correctness signals. To combine both step-level validation and global outcome assessment, we design a hybrid reward aggregation mechanism that fuses tool-based verification with MCTS-derived feedback. Finally, we format the reward signal into a rationale-enhanced, generative structure to promote interpretability and compatibility with instruction-tuned LLMs. GroundedPRM is trained on only 40K automatically labeled samples, amounting to just 10% of the data used by the best-performing PRM trained with auto-labeled supervision. Nevertheless, it achieves up to a 26% relative improvement in average performance on ProcessBench. When used for reward-guided greedy search, GroundedPRM outperforms even PRMs trained with human-labeled supervision, offering a scalable and verifiable path toward high-quality process-level reasoning.

推理增强奖励建模自动标注可解释性

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