用自然指令数据构建强化学习训练集,显著提升大模型通用推理能力
SUPERNOVA: Eliciting General Reasoning in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning on Natural Instructions

- 从自然指令数据中筛选任务,构建可验证的强化学习训练集
- 在BigBench Extra Hard上实现64.4个百分点的性能提升
- 方法适用于新任务、大模型和新模型家族,具有强泛化性
强化学习结合可验证奖励(RLVR)在数学与代码等正式领域显著提升了模型推理能力,但扩展至非STEM领域仍受限于高质量可验证数据的缺乏。本文提出SUPERNOVA框架,从自然指令数据集中挖掘专家标注数据用于RLVR训练。通过100余次受控实验,系统研究了任务选择、任务混合与合成干预三种数据设计策略。结果表明,基于目标任务表现选择源任务优于平均表现策略,而合成干预无增益。据此构建的25,000条实例高质量数据集使Qwen3-0.6B模型在BigBench Extra Hard(BBEH)上获得64.4%相对提升。更重要的是,该效果在未见基准、更大模型及新模型族上均具泛化能力。研究成果为扩展人类标注资源以支持通用推理提供了实用指导。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved reasoning in formal domains such as mathematics and code, but extending these gains beyond STEM remains challenging. Extending RLVR beyond STEM is fundamentally constrained by the lack of high-quality verifiable training data. In this work, we introduce SUPERNOVA, a framework for curating RLVR data from natural instruction datasets, which are a rich source of expert-annotated data but are underexplored for RLVR training. Through 100+ controlled RL experiments, we systematically study how to utilize these dataset for RLVR and how data curation decisions affect downstream reasoning performance . In particular, we investigate three data designs: (a) source task selection, (b) task mixing, and (c) synthetic interventions. Our analysis reveals that source task selection has a significant impact on downstream reasoning performance. Moreover, selecting tasks based on their performance for individual target tasks outperforms strategies based on overall average performance and synthetic interventions do not improve reasoning. Guided by these insights, we construct SUPERNOVA, a high-quality RLVR dataset of 25K instances curated from natural instruction datasets. We show that training Qwen3-0.6B on SUPERNOVA outperforms the base Qwen3-0.6B, yielding a relative gain of 64.4pp on BigBench Extra Hard (BBEH), a challenging benchmark comprising 23 complex reasoning tasks. Importantly, we find that gains from SUPERNOVA generalize to unseen benchmarks, larger model scales, and newer model families. Overall, our findings provide practical insights for curating human-annotated resources to extend RLVR to general reasoning. Models, Data, Code at https://github.com/asuvarna31/supernova.
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