arXiv:2604.14847cs.AI2026-04ACL

用触发机制让小模型主导推理,大模型只在关键时介入,提速降耗还保准。

TrigReason: Trigger-Based Collaboration between Small and Large Reasoning Models

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  • 小模型主推推理,大模型仅在规划、过信、卡死时被触发介入。
  • 在多个数据集上准确率媲美全量大模型,推理步骤转移率提升1.7到4.8倍。
  • 适合资源受限场景,如边缘计算或低延迟高成本敏感应用。

大型推理模型(LRMs)通过长链思维在复杂任务上表现优异,但自回归推理导致高延迟。近期研究尝试用小型推理模型(SRMs)加速LRM推理。本文系统分析了SRMs的能力边界,识别出三类常见推理风险:路径偏离(缺乏初始规划能力)、认知过载(无法解决难题)、恢复无力(缺乏自我反思与纠错)。为此,我们提出TrigReason,一种基于触发的协同推理框架,将连续轮询改为选择性干预。该框架将大部分推理交由SRM完成,仅在初始战略规划(策略预热触发)、检测到异常自信(认知卸载触发)或陷入无效循环(干预请求触发)时激活LRM。在AIME24、AIME25和GPQA-D上的评估显示,TrigReason在准确率上与全量LRMs和SpecReason相当,同时将1.70x–4.79x的推理步骤转给SRMs。在边云环境下,延迟降低43.9%,API成本减少73.3%。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance on complex tasks through extended chains of thought but suffer from high inference latency due to autoregressive reasoning. Recent work explores using Small Reasoning Models (SRMs) to accelerate LRM inference. In this paper, we systematically characterize the capability boundaries of SRMs and identify three common types of reasoning risks: (1) path divergence, where SRMs lack the strategic ability to construct an initial plan, causing reasoning to deviate from the most probable path; (2) cognitive overload, where SRMs fail to solve particularly difficult steps; and (3) recovery inability, where SRMs lack robust self-reflection and error correction mechanisms. To address these challenges, we propose TrigReason, a trigger-based collaborative reasoning framework that replaces continuous polling with selective intervention. TrigReason delegates most reasoning to the SRM and activates LRM intervention only when necessary-during initial strategic planning (strategic priming trigger), upon detecting extraordinary overconfidence (cognitive offload trigger), or when reasoning falls into unproductive loops (intervention request trigger). The evaluation results on AIME24, AIME25, and GPQA-D indicate that TrigReason matches the accuracy of full LRMs and SpecReason, while offloading 1.70x - 4.79x more reasoning steps to SRMs. Under edge-cloud conditions, TrigReason reduces latency by 43.9\% and API cost by 73.3\%. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/QQQ-yi/TrigReason}{https://github.com/QQQ-yi/TrigReason}

推理协同小模型触发机制效率优化

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