arXiv:2608.08802cs.AI2026-08

提升多模态强化学习的鲁棒性,让模型抗干扰能力更强

Improving Generalization Robustness of Multimodal RLVR

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  • 用动态三元奖励分离格式与语义,避免误判
  • 引入嵌入空间对抗正则,使模型对同义提示保持一致输出
  • 在提示扰动下性能下降小于1%,适合医疗等高风险场景

基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)提升了多模态大语言模型的准确性,但其效果极易受提示变化影响:简单改写问题或更换模板就会导致性能显著下降,限制了其在医疗视觉问答等高风险场景的可靠部署。我们发现根源在于标准强化学习目标的两个缺陷:一是二元验证器混淆了格式与内容,无法区分错误答案与格式错误;二是训练分布过于狭窄,无法覆盖部署时可能遇到的真实世界提示,导致模型在未见提示下表现不稳定。为此,我们提出提示无关的RLVR(PIRL),通过动态三元奖励分离语义与格式,并引入基于嵌入空间对抗的策略一致性正则。在压力测试中,PIRL平均准确率下降不超过1%,而GRPO下降约3%;动态评估中,PIRL性能衰减最小。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) makes Multimodal Large Language Models more accurate, but the gains are brittle: simply paraphrasing a question or changing the prompt template can degrade them, which challenges reliable deployment in high-stakes scenarios like medical VQA. We trace this to two issues of the standard RL objective. First, the binary verifier conflates format with content, so the reward signal cannot tell a wrong answer apart from a misformatted one. Second, the training distribution covers only a thin slice of the real-world prompts that the model might meet at deployment, so policies that perform well on the training distribution can behave differently under unseen prompts during test. Both failures call for a robust post-training method that helps the policy cover a broader distribution of semantically equivalent prompts, and we identify two measures that help achieve this objective: separating format from semantics in the reward, and applying policy invariance across perturbed prompts with equivalent semantics. We therefore propose Prompt-Invariant RLVR (PIRL), consisting of a dynamic trinary reward and a consistency regularizer based on an embedding-space adversary. Under stress testing, PIRL's average accuracy on benchmarks drops by only $\le 1\%$, where GRPO drops ~3%. On dynamic evaluation, PIRL also achieves the smallest performance drop.

强化学习多模态鲁棒性提示不变

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