通过视觉感知精炼奖励模型,实现对视觉语言模型推理错误的细粒度定位与修正。
Improving Vision-language Models with Perception-centric Process Reward Models

- 设计感知导向的过程奖励模型,逐标记响应中的视觉错误断言
- 在多个基准上使强化训练的视觉语言模型性能显著提升
- 支持推理时动态修正错误,适用于需要高可靠性的场景
近期基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)显著提升了视觉语言模型(VLMs)的复杂推理能力,但其结果级监督过于粗略,难以诊断和修正推理链中的错误。为此,我们提出 Perceval,一种过程奖励模型(PRM),可实现令牌级错误定位:从模型输出中提取与图像相关的陈述,并逐一与图像中的视觉证据比对,最终识别出包含感知错误的陈述。Perceval 使用强调感知的监督数据进行训练,并集成至强化学习训练流程中。相比传统 GRPO 的序列级优势,我们采用令牌级优势,针对 Perceval 识别出的幻觉片段施加惩罚,从而提供细粒度的监督信号。此外,Perceval 还可用于推理阶段:可截断错误部分,让模型直接重生成或反思前序输出,该过程可重复多次以实现测试时扩展。实验表明,在多个领域、多种强化学习训练的视觉语言模型上均有显著提升,验证了感知导向监督作为通用策略的潜力。在测试时扩展方面,其性能持续优于如多数投票等其他策略。代码与数据将公开于 https://github.com/RUCAIBox/Perceval。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advancements in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) have significantly improved the complex reasoning ability of vision-language models (VLMs). However, its outcome-level supervision is too coarse to diagnose and correct errors within the reasoning chain. To this end, we propose Perceval, a process reward model (PRM) that enables token-level error grounding, which can extract image-related claims from the response and compare them one by one with the visual evidence in the image, ultimately returning claims that contain perceptual errors. Perceval is trained with perception-intensive supervised training data. We then integrate Perceval into the RL training process to train the policy models. Specifically, compared to traditional GRPO, which applies sequence-level advantages, we apply token-level advantages by targeting penalties on hallucinated spans identified by Perceval, thus enabling fine-grained supervision signals. In addition to augmenting the training process, Perceval can also assist VLMs during the inference stage. Using Perceval, we can truncate the erroneous portions of the model's response, and then either have the model regenerate the response directly or induce the model to reflect on its previous output. This process can be repeated multiple times to achieve test-time scaling. Experiments show significant improvements on benchmarks from various domains across multiple reasoning VLMs trained with RL, highlighting the promise of perception-centric supervision as a general-purpose strategy. For test-time scaling, it also demonstrates consistent performance gains over other strategies, such as major voting. Our code and data will be publicly released at https://github.com/RUCAIBox/Perceval.
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