arXiv:2602.20197cs.LGcs.AI2026-02被引 1

提出可控探索框架CalibRL,提升多模态大模型强化学习的稳定性与效果。

Controllable Exploration in Hybrid-Policy RLVR for Multi-Modal Reasoning

  • 采用分布感知加权与非对称激活函数,实现受控随机性探索。
  • 在8个基准上显著提升性能,避免策略退化和错误收敛。
  • 适合需要稳定训练的多模态推理任务研究者使用。

基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)已成为增强多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)推理能力的主要范式。然而,在强化学习训练过程中,MLLM庞大的状态空间与稀疏奖励常导致熵坍缩、策略退化或对次优行为的过度利用,亟需一种既能保持有效随机性又避免盲目采样的探索策略。本文提出CalibRL,一种支持专家引导的可控探索的混合策略RLVR框架,包含两个核心机制:其一,分布感知的优势加权通过按组别稀有度调节更新,校准分布并维持探索;其二,非对称激活函数(LeakyReLU)以专家知识为校准基线,缓解过度自信更新,同时保留修正方向。CalibRL以在线采样估计策略分布,有指导地提升策略熵,驱动信息量丰富的行为,避免陷入错误模式。这些设计有效缓解了模型策略与专家轨迹间的分布偏移,实现了探索与利用的更稳定平衡。在涵盖领域内与领域外设置的8个基准上的大量实验表明,该方法具有一致性提升,验证了其有效性。代码已开源:https://github.com/zhh6425/CalibRL。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement Learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a primary learning paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). However, during RL training, the enormous state space of MLLM and sparse rewards often leads to entropy collapse, policy degradation, or over-exploitation of suboptimal behaviors. This necessitates an exploration strategy that maintains productive stochasticity while avoiding the drawbacks of uncontrolled random sampling, yielding inefficient exploration. In this paper, we propose CalibRL, a hybrid-policy RLVR framework that supports controllable exploration with expert guidance, enabled by two key mechanisms. First, a distribution-aware advantage weighting scales updates by group rareness to calibrate the distribution, therefore preserving exploration. Meanwhile, the asymmetric activation function (LeakyReLU) leverages the expert knowledge as a calibration baseline to moderate overconfident updates while preserving their corrective direction. CalibRL increases policy entropy in a guided manner and clarifies the target distribution by estimating the on-policy distribution through online sampling. Updates are driven by these informative behaviors, avoiding convergence to erroneous patterns. Importantly, these designs help alleviate the distributional mismatch between the model's policy and expert trajectories, thereby achieving a more stable balance between exploration and exploitation. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks, including both in-domain and out-of-domain settings, demonstrate consistent improvements, validating the effectiveness of our controllable hybrid-policy RLVR training. Code is available at https://github.com/zhh6425/CalibRL.

强化学习多模态推理可控探索大模型

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