多智能体协作让模型在无监督下自发产生高质量推理。
Co-RL: Unsupervised Reasoning Emerges from Diverse Cohort in Multi-agent RL
- 多个独立模型通过互相评分实现无监督强化学习。
- 模型多样性提升使文本和视觉语言任务性能提升3%-8.6%。
- 适合追求无标注推理能力的AI研究者和开发者。
强化学习(RL)在提升语言和视觉-语言模型推理能力方面表现强劲,但其成功仍高度依赖人工标注的奖励信号(如可验证的反馈)。这类标注成本高昂,且随着模型推理能力超越人类评估范围而愈发稀缺。自奖励强化学习通过模型自身生成反馈来降低对标注的依赖,但仅用自生成反馈训练易导致偏差固化、行为趋同,引发训练崩溃。本文提出Co-RL框架:多个无参数共享的独立模型通过同伴评分进行协同强化学习。通过引入异构模型家族、大小差异及重述训练样本以增强群体多样性,有效缓解了相关错误驱动的反馈循环。该方法持续提升推理表现,保持行为多样性,并防止训练崩溃。在纯文本与多模态领域,Co-RL均优于基础模型及已有无标签方法,且在无任何真实标签条件下达到或超过有监督方法水平。具体而言,在7个文本基准上,模型平均提升3.0%-8.6%;在4个多模态基准上提升2.3%-7.2%。代码已开源:https://github.com/DrStranded/Co-RL。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach for improving reasoning in language and vision-language models, yet its strongest successes still depend heavily on ground-truth supervision (e.g., verifiable reward). Such annotations are costly to obtain and become increasingly scarce as reasoning capabilities advance beyond what humans can reliably evaluate. Self-rewarding RL reduces this dependence by enabling models to derive reward signals from their own completions. However, training solely on self-generated feedback can reinforce existing biases and suboptimal behaviors, reduce response diversity, and ultimately lead to homogenized responses and training collapse. In this work, we show that unsupervised reasoning can emerge through cooperative multi-agent training. We introduce Co-RL, a framework in which multiple decoupled models, sharing no parameters, are simultaneously optimized through RL using rewards derived from their peers. We further show that increasing cohort diversity, through heterogeneous model families, sizes, and rephrased training samples, reduces the correlated errors that drive self-reinforcing feedback loops. This diversity consistently improves reasoning performance, maintains behavioral diversity, and mitigates training collapse. Across text-only and multimodal domains, Co-RL consistently outperforms the base models and prior label-free approaches, while matching or surpassing supervised methods, without access to any ground-truth labels. Concretely, Co-RL yields average gains of 3.0-8.6% across seven text-only benchmarks for LLMs and 2.3-7.2% across four multimodal benchmarks for VLMs. Code is available at https://github.com/DrStranded/Co-RL.
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