让大模型推理能力持续提升的自适应强化学习框架
SCALER:Synthetic Scalable Adaptive Learning Environment for Reasoning
- 用可扩展合成技术生成可控难度的编程题环境
- 动态调整任务难度与环境组合,避免训练停滞
- 适合需要长期稳定提升推理能力的研究者
强化学习(RL)为提升大语言模型的推理能力提供了系统方法,但其效果依赖于随模型演进仍具信息量的训练信号。实践中,当任务难度与模型能力不匹配,或训练被少数重复模式主导时,RL进展常会放缓。为此,我们提出SCALER(Synthetic sCalable Adaptive Learning Environment for Reasoning),通过自适应环境设计维持有效的学习信号。SCALER引入可扩展的合成流程,将真实编程问题转化为可验证、难度可控且可无限生成的推理环境,使RL训练摆脱有限数据集限制,并保持强正确性保障。在此基础上,SCALER采用自适应多环境强化学习策略,动态调节实例难度并优化活跃环境集合,以追踪模型能力边界并维持分布多样性。这种协同适应机制有效缓解奖励稀疏、避免对狭窄任务模式过拟合,支持训练全程持续改进。大量实验表明,SCALER在多个推理基准上均优于基于数据集的RL基线,展现出更稳定、更长周期的训练动态。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a principled way to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet its effectiveness hinges on training signals that remain informative as models evolve. In practice, RL progress often slows when task difficulty becomes poorly aligned with model capability, or when training is dominated by a narrow set of recurring problem patterns. To jointly address these issues, we propose SCALER (Synthetic sCalable Adaptive Learning Environment for Reasoning), a framework that sustains effective learning signals through adaptive environment design. SCALER introduces a scalable synthesis pipeline that converts real-world programming problems into verifiable reasoning environments with controllable difficulty and unbounded instance generation, enabling RL training beyond finite datasets while preserving strong correctness guarantees. Building on this, SCALER further employs an adaptive multi-environment RL strategy that dynamically adjusts instance difficulty and curates the active set of environments to track the model's capability frontier and maintain distributional diversity. This co-adaptation prevents reward sparsity, mitigates overfitting to narrow task patterns, and supports sustained improvement throughout training. Extensive experiments show that SCALER consistently outperforms dataset-based RL baselines across diverse reasoning benchmarks and exhibits more stable, long-horizon training dynamics.
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