arXiv:2605.15726cs.AIcs.CL2026-05被引 1

通过策略引导探索,让大模型在数学推理中更高效地试错。

Nudging Beyond the Comfort Zone: Efficient Strategy-Guided Exploration for RLVR

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  • 用轻量级策略上下文引导探索,生成多样化推理路径。
  • 在5个数学基准上,比标准方法提升显著,且仅需1/8的采样量。
  • 适合追求高效推理训练的AI研究者和开发者。

基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)已成为提升大语言模型推理能力的可扩展范式。然而其效果受限于探索:策略只能在已采样的轨迹上优化。增加采样次数虽能缓解问题,但计算成本高;现有优化目标修改方法对探索内容控制有限。本文提出NudgeRL框架,实现结构化、多样性驱动的探索。引入策略引导(Strategy Nudging),通过轻量级策略级上下文条件化每条轨迹,无需昂贵的真值监督即可诱导多样推理路径。为有效利用此类探索,进一步设计统一目标,将奖励信号分解为跨上下文与内上下文成分,并引入蒸馏目标,将发现的行为回传至基础策略。实验表明,NudgeRL在五项挑战性数学基准上,优于标准GRPO(最多使用8倍采样预算),且平均性能超越基于真值引导的基线。结果表明,结构化上下文驱动的探索可作为暴力采样和依赖特权信息方法的有效替代方案。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a scalable paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, its effectiveness is fundamentally limited by exploration: the policy can only improve on trajectories it has already sampled. While increasing the number of rollouts alleviates this issue, such brute-force scaling is computationally expensive, and existing approaches that modify the optimization objective provide limited control over what is explored. In this work, we propose NudgeRL, a framework for structured and diversity-driven exploration in RLVR. Our approach introduces Strategy Nudging, which conditions each rollout on lightweight, strategy-level contexts to induce diverse reasoning trajectories without relying on expensive oracle supervision. To effectively learn from such structured exploration, we further propose a unified objective, which decomposes the reward signal into inter- and intra-context components and incorporates a distillation objective to transfer discovered behaviors back to the base policy. Empirically, NudgeRL outperforms standard GRPO with up to 8 times larger rollout budgets, while outperforming oracle-guided RL baseline on average across five challenging math benchmarks. These results demonstrate that structured, context-driven exploration can serve as an efficient and scalable alternative to both brute-force rollout scaling and feasibility-oriented methods based on privileged information. Our code is available at https://github.com/tally0818/NudgeRL.

强化学习推理增强探索策略大模型

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