arXiv:2511.21667cs.LGcs.AI2025-11被引 6

无需验证器,仅靠专家示范就能训练出强推理能力的模型。

Escaping the Verifier: Learning to Reason via Demonstrations

  • 通过逆强化学习构建对抗性博弈,从专家示范中学习推理策略。
  • 在计数、数学和诗歌创作任务上分别提升13.7%、8.2%和19.1%表现。
  • 适合无验证器可用的复杂推理场景,尤其适用于缺乏标注的任务。

训练大语言模型进行推理通常依赖特定任务的验证器进行强化学习。然而,许多现实中的推理密集型任务缺乏验证器,尽管存在大量未被充分利用的专家示范。本文提出RARO(相对对抗推理优化),仅通过逆强化学习从专家示范中学习强大的推理能力。RARO构建了一个策略与相对批评者之间的对抗游戏:策略模仿专家答案,而批评者则试图从专家-策略答案对中识别真实专家。两者通过强化学习联合且持续训练,并识别出实现稳定学习的关键技术。实验表明,RARO在所有评估任务上显著优于现有无验证器基线:在Countdown(1.5B)上准确率提升13.7%,在DeepMath(7B)上提升8.2%,在Poetry Writing(7B)上胜率提高19.1%。RARO还展现出与带验证器强化学习相似的稳健扩展趋势。结果证明,仅凭专家示范即可有效激发强推理性能,使在缺乏特定验证器时仍能实现可靠推理学习。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) to reason often relies on Reinforcement Learning (RL) with task-specific verifiers. However, many real-world reasoning-intensive tasks lack verifiers, despite offering abundant expert demonstrations that remain under-utilized for reasoning-focused training. We introduce RARO (Relativistic Adversarial Reasoning Optimization), which learns strong reasoning capabilities from expert demonstrations alone via Inverse Reinforcement Learning. RARO sets up an adversarial game between a policy and a relativistic critic: the policy learns to mimic expert answers, while the critic aims to identify the experts among expert-policy answer pairs. Both the policy and the critic are trained jointly and continuously via RL, and we identify the key stabilization techniques required for robust learning. Empirically, RARO significantly outperforms strong verifier-free baselines across all evaluation tasks: +13.7% accuracy on Countdown (1.5B), +8.2% accuracy on DeepMath (7B), and +19.1% win-rate on Poetry Writing (7B) against expert poems. RARO also exhibits similar robust scaling trends as RL with verifiers. These results demonstrate that RARO effectively elicits strong reasoning performance from expert demonstrations alone, enabling robust reasoning learning even when task-specific verifiers are unavailable.

推理学习逆强化学习专家示范无验证器

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