arXiv:2601.20649cs.CL2026-01AAAI

让大模型推理过程更靠谱,通过自动生成高质量思维链来指导训练。

P2S: Probabilistic Process Supervision for General-Domain Reasoning Question Answering

  • 用条件概率自动生成并筛选优质推理路径,提供每一步的奖励信号。
  • 在阅读理解与医学问答任务上,性能超越现有强基线模型。
  • 无需人工标注或额外奖励模型,适合通用领域推理场景。

尽管基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)在数学、编程等结构化领域推动了大模型推理能力的发展,但在通用领域推理任务中仍面临缺乏可验证奖励信号的挑战。现有方法如基于参考概率奖励的强化学习(RLPR)虽利用最终答案生成概率作为奖励,但忽视了推理过程的逐步监督。为此,本文提出概率过程监督(P2S),一种无需额外奖励模型或人工标注推理步骤的自监督框架。P2S在强化学习过程中合成并过滤高质量参考推理链(gold-CoT),核心是为每个推理步骤计算路径忠实度奖励(PFR),该奖励基于给定当前推理前缀时生成黄金推理链后缀的条件概率。关键优势在于,PFR可灵活融合任意基于结果的奖励,直接缓解奖励稀疏问题,提供密集引导。在阅读理解与医学问答基准上的大量实验表明,P2S显著优于多个强基线模型。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has advanced LLM reasoning in structured domains like mathematics and programming, its application to general-domain reasoning tasks remains challenging due to the absence of verifiable reward signals. To this end, methods like Reinforcement Learning with Reference Probability Reward (RLPR) have emerged, leveraging the probability of generating the final answer as a reward signal. However, these outcome-focused approaches neglect crucial step-by-step supervision of the reasoning process itself. To address this gap, we introduce Probabilistic Process Supervision (P2S), a novel self-supervision framework that provides fine-grained process rewards without requiring a separate reward model or human-annotated reasoning steps. During reinforcement learning, P2S synthesizes and filters a high-quality reference reasoning chain (gold-CoT). The core of our method is to calculate a Path Faithfulness Reward (PFR) for each reasoning step, which is derived from the conditional probability of generating the gold-CoT's suffix, given the model's current reasoning prefix. Crucially, this PFR can be flexibly integrated with any outcome-based reward, directly tackling the reward sparsity problem by providing dense guidance. Extensive experiments on reading comprehension and medical Question Answering benchmarks show that P2S significantly outperforms strong baselines.

强化学习推理链自监督大模型

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