让大模型学会用小模型能理解的方式推理,提升协作可读性。
Tandem Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

- 强模型与弱模型交替生成推理过程,共同获得奖励以对齐思路。
- 在竞赛数学任务中保持强模型性能,同时提升弱模型的承接能力。
- 适合需要多模型协作或人类可读性的实际应用场景。
基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)显著提升了大语言模型的推理能力,在竞赛数学等领域达到专家甚至超人水平。然而,较弱的智能体和人类是否能有效利用这种能力仍不确定,现有方法常导致推理过程出现难以阅读、语言混杂等偏差。为此,本文提出并行强化学习(TRL),将“双人协作”训练范式引入RLVR:一个训练好的强模型(资深者)与一个冻结的弱模型(新手)交替生成推理链,整体输出获得奖励,并仅对强模型应用标准GRPO损失。在Qwen3-4B-Instruct模型上进行竞赛数学训练发现,TRL在独立推理能力上与原始GRPO相当,且同一推理结构下同步出现三大特性:更强的新人承接鲁棒性、更低的分布漂移、以及更利于新手理解的思维链。结果表明,该方法为实现更具实用价值的多模型协同与人机兼容性提供了可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has significantly improved the reasoning capability of large language models, reaching expert or even superhuman performance in domains such as competition math. However, whether weaker agents and humans can actually harness this capability is far less certain, with RLVR documented to drift reasoning toward idiosyncratic patterns such as poor readability and language mixing. Tandem training is a recently introduced paradigm that targets this compatibility problem: a trained, stronger senior co-generates each rollout with a frozen, weaker junior, and the two are rewarded as a team, so the senior is pushed to reason in ways the junior can follow. Yet this paradigm has so far been demonstrated only in proof-of-concept settings, leaving open whether it scales to the long chains of thought of the modern RLVR pipeline. In this work, we propose Tandem Reinforcement Learning (TRL), which carries the tandem training paradigm into RLVR. In TRL, the senior and a frozen junior alternate stochastically to co-generate the reasoning, the resulting generation is rewarded, and the standard GRPO loss is applied to the senior. Training Qwen3-4B-Instruct on competition math, we find that TRL matches vanilla GRPO on solo reasoning capability while three properties emerge together from the same rollout structure: stronger handoff robustness with the junior, reduced distributional drift from the junior, and a chain-of-thought more legible to the junior. Our results demonstrate a promising route for RLVR with practical payoffs in multi-model communication and human compatibility.
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