仅从参考样本中学习推理:面向现代 LLM 后训练的强化对抗学习
Learning to Reason from Reference Samples Alone: Reinforced Adversarial Learning for Modern LLM Post-Training
Albert Bou, Javier Valdes-Aleman, Jon M. Laurent, Samuel G. Rodriques, Andrew D. White, Michaela Hinks, Siddharth Narayanan
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提出 Reinforced Adversarial Learning(RAL),用共同训练的 LLM 评判器把参考答案转化为唯一奖励,用于推理 LLM 的在线策略后训练。
cs.AI · cs.LG
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In many settings where LLM post-training is desirable, high-quality answers are recognizable but difficult to score with explicit rewards. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is limited to tasks where an explicit correctness signal is available. Prior adversarial approaches to training reasoning LLMs either complement verifiable rewards with co-trained critics or require reference reasoning traces. We ask whether a co-trained LLM judge can turn reference answers alone into the sole reward for on-policy post-training of reasoning LLMs. We call this method Reinforced Adversarial Learning (RAL). We first validate RAL on three verifiable tasks (integer multiplication, code-based arithmetic-expression synthesis, and SMILES-to-formula translation), using the verifiers only for evaluation. With sufficiently capable judges and enough training, RAL matches direct RLVR. We then apply RAL to scientific abstract generation in two settings. In the first setting, RAL guides the generator to produce abstracts in the scientific domain of the reference abstracts, even though the prompt leaves that domain unspecified. In the second setting, we generate abstracts for U.S. National Institutes of Health grant proposals conditioned on the grant title. Human scientists and an ensemble of LLM judges find our generations harder to distinguish from real abstracts than those of frontier-LLM baselines. These results suggest a path toward post-training reasoning models in scientific and other high-value domains, where increasingly capable judges infer hard-to-specify reward functions from example answers.