用动态预测提前选好题,让大模型推理训练更省力
Dynamics-Predictive Sampling for Active RL Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models
- 通过建模题目求解过程为动态系统,预测其学习进展
- 减少90%以上冗余推演,训练速度提升3倍以上
- 适合追求高效微调大模型推理能力的研究者
强化学习(RL)微调已成为提升大语言模型(LLM)推理能力的关键技术。然而其效果高度依赖训练数据选择。近期方法强调在线选取部分解决或中等难度的题目,虽能加速训练,但需对大量候选样本进行昂贵的模型推演,计算开销常超过微调本身。为此,本文提出动态预测采样(DPS),在不进行耗时推演的前提下,通过历史奖励信号在线推断题目求解动态,预测其未来学习潜力。具体地,将每个题目的求解进度视为状态,用隐马尔可夫模型刻画状态转移,结合贝叶斯推理实时更新状态分布,从而生成高效提示选择的先验。在数学、规划和视觉几何等多样推理任务上的实验证明,DPS显著减少冗余推演,训练速度提升3倍以上,同时实现更优的推理性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning (RL) finetuning has become a key technique for enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, its effectiveness critically depends on the selection of training data. Recent advances underscore the importance of online prompt selection methods, which typically concentrate training on partially solved or moderately challenging examples under the current policy, thereby yielding more effective model updates. While significantly accelerating RL finetuning in terms of training steps, they also incur substantial computational overhead by requiring extensive LLM rollouts over large candidate batches to identify informative samples, an expense that can outweigh the finetuning process itself. To address this challenge, this work proposes Dynamics-Predictive Sampling (DPS), which online predicts and selects informative prompts by inferring their learning dynamics prior to costly rollouts. Specifically, we introduce a new perspective by modeling each prompt's solving progress during RL finetuning as a dynamical system, where the extent of solving is represented as the state and the transition is characterized by a hidden Markov model. Using historical rollout reward signals, we perform online Bayesian inference to estimate evolving state distributions, and the inference outcome provides a predictive prior for efficient prompt selection without rollout-intensive filtering. Empirical results across diverse reasoning tasks, including mathematics, planning, and visual geometry, demonstrate that DPS substantially reduces redundant rollouts, accelerates the training process, and achieves superior reasoning performance.
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