让小模型学会像大模型一样主动推理,突破传统模仿的局限。
MIND: From Passive Mimicry to Active Reasoning through Capability-Aware Multi-Perspective CoT Distillation
- 设计多视角思维链蒸馏框架,动态融合教师不同推理路径
- 在多个数据集上超越现有方法,跨域泛化能力提升12.3%
- 适合想提升小模型推理能力的研究者和工程师
尽管大型语言模型通过思维链推理在复杂任务中表现出色,但实际资源限制促使人们尝试将这些能力迁移到小型模型。然而,实现领域内性能与跨领域泛化仍具挑战。现有方法通常让学生模型单一模仿最优推理路径,且独立处理不同推理路径。由于诱导偏差和内在偏好差异,以及学生模型在训练中能力与推理偏好的演变,教师的“最优”路径可能成为分布外噪声,导致学生隐式推理分布退化,表现不佳。为此,我们提出MIND,一种能力自适应框架,将蒸馏从被动模仿转向主动认知构建。通过创新的“教学助手”网络合成多样教师视角,并采用反馈驱动的惯性校准机制,利用惯性过滤后的损失函数,使监督信号与学生当前适应能力对齐,有效提升性能并缓解灾难性遗忘。大量实验表明,MIND在分布内和分布外基准上均达到领先水平,精细的潜在空间分析进一步验证了推理能力内化的机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged with remarkable capabilities in complex tasks through Chain-of-Thought reasoning, practical resource constraints have sparked interest in transferring these abilities to smaller models. However, achieving both domain performance and cross-domain generalization remains challenging. Existing approaches typically restrict students to following a single golden rationale and treat different reasoning paths independently. Due to distinct inductive biases and intrinsic preferences, alongside the student's evolving capacity and reasoning preferences during training, a teacher's "optimal" rationale could act as out-of-distribution noise. This misalignment leads to a degeneration of the student's latent reasoning distribution, causing suboptimal performance. To bridge this gap, we propose MIND, a capability-adaptive framework that transitions distillation from passive mimicry to active cognitive construction. We synthesize diverse teacher perspectives through a novel "Teaching Assistant" network. By employing a Feedback-Driven Inertia Calibration mechanism, this network utilizes inertia-filtered training loss to align supervision with the student's current adaptability, effectively enhancing performance while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MIND achieves state-of-the-art performance on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution benchmarks, and our sophisticated latent space analysis further confirms the mechanism of reasoning ability internalization.
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