让模型自己生成推理过程监督信号,解决仅靠最终结果训练的难题
Internalizing Outcome Supervision into Process Supervision: A New Paradigm for Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning
- 通过重用失败推理路径自动构建过程级学习信号
- 在仅依赖结果反馈条件下实现细粒度策略优化
- 适合需要低成本、可扩展推理训练的场景
强化学习用于推理的核心挑战不仅在于结果层面监督的稀疏性,更在于如何将仅在序列末端提供的反馈转化为能够指导中间推理步骤的细粒度学习信号。现有方法或依赖结果奖励进行序列优化,导致信用分配困难;或依赖外部构建的过程监督,成本高且难以可持续扩展。为此,我们提出新视角:强化学习用于推理可视为将结果监督内化为过程监督的问题。基于此,我们提出一种监督内化方法,使模型能通过识别、纠正和重用失败的推理轨迹,自动提取过程级学习信号,在仅有结果监督的条件下实现更精细的策略优化。我们进一步将该思想抽象为新训练范式,即模型在强化学习过程中持续生成并完善自身内部的过程监督,为强化学习中的细粒度信用分配开辟新路径,区别于外部提供过程监督的传统方式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The central challenge of reinforcement learning for reasoning lies not only in the sparsity of outcome-level supervision, but more fundamentally in how to transform feedback provided only at the end of a sequence into fine-grained learning signals that can guide intermediate reasoning steps. Existing approaches either rely on outcome-level rewards for sequence-level optimization, which makes precise credit assignment difficult, or depend on externally constructed process supervision, which is costly and difficult to scale sustainably. To address this, we propose a new perspective: reinforcement learning for reasoning can be understood as the problem of internalizing outcome supervision into process supervision. From this perspective, we introduce a supervision-internalization method for reinforcement learning for reasoning, enabling the model to automatically extract process-level learning signals through identifying, correcting, and reusing failed reasoning trajectories, thereby achieving finer-grained policy optimization under outcome-only supervision. We further abstract this idea into a new training paradigm, in which the model continually generates and refines its own internal process supervision during reinforcement learning, opening a new path for fine-grained credit assignment in reinforcement learning for reasoning that differs from externally provided process supervision.
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