arXiv:2605.29190cs.LGcs.CL2026-05

用奖励机制提升大模型解题能力,同时避免思维单一化。

When RL Suppresses Its Own Vocabulary: Recovering Reasoning Diversity in Puzzle-to-Math Transfer

论文配图:When RL Suppresses Its Own Vocabulary: Recovering Reasoning Diversity in Puzzle-to-Math Transfer
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  • 通过拼图任务训练,建立基础推理单元库。
  • 引入新颖性奖励,恢复多样化的正确解题路径,使数学难题通过率提升7个百分点。
  • 无需加入数学题数据,即可显著提升模型解决高难度数学问题的能力。

使用可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)能提升大模型的推理能力,但其跨领域迁移的条件与机制仍不明确。本研究以一个70亿参数模型为对象,其监督微调(SFT)和强化学习后训练阶段仅使用约束满足类拼图问题,未包含任何数学题目。为分析迁移如何发生,提出一种基于推理原语的分析框架,结合9类跨度分类器与模式提取技术,将思维链分解为基本推理模式并追踪其演化过程。研究发现,拼图SFT阶段建立了推理原语词汇表,在奥数难题集OlymMATH-Hard上带来+7个百分点的pass@32提升;普通GSPO进一步组合这些原语形成更长的计算-验证链,再增+6个百分点。然而,该强化学习阶段会抑制如“假设”“回溯”等探索性原语。为此,引入新颖性奖励机制,以参考模型的困惑度作为信号,激励多样化且正确的推理轨迹。该方法成功恢复了探索性原语,并在对比普通GSPO的基础上实现+7个百分点的提升。最终端到端方案将硬核数学能力上限从基线模型的16.0%提升至36.0%,整个过程未引入任何数学题目。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning using verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves LLM reasoning, but the conditions under which it transfers across domains -- and why it does so -- remain under-explored. We study cross-domain transfer in a 7B model whose SFT and RL post-training stages use only constraint-satisfaction puzzles, with no mathematics problems in the post-training data. To analyze how transfer emerges, we introduce a reasoning primitive-level framework that combines a 9-class span classifier with motif extraction, allowing us to segment chain-of-thought traces into primitive motifs and track their evolution across training stages and domains. We find that puzzle SFT induces a reasoning-primitive vocabulary, yielding a $+7$pp \texttt{pass@32} gain on OlymMATH-Hard. Vanilla GSPO then composes these primitives into longer compute-verify chains, adding a further $+6$pp. However, this RL stage also suppresses exploratory primitives such as \textit{hypothesize} and \textit{backtrack}. To address this, we introduce a novelty bonus that rewards diverse correct rollouts, using perplexity under the reference model as a signal. This restores recovery primitives during RL and adds a further $+7$pp \texttt{pass@32} relative to vanilla GSPO. Finally, the end-to-end recipe raises the hard-math capability ceiling from $16.0\%$ at the OLMo3-7B-Instruct-SFT base to $36.0\%$, without adding any mathematics problems during the SFT or RL stages.

强化学习推理增强跨域迁移大模型

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