arXiv AI

VERDICT: Training-Free Step-Wise Verification of Multimodal Reasoning via Disagreement-Aware Consensus

arXiv:2608. 10665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models often generate reasoning chains containing subtle errors that lead to incorrect answers.

arXiv AI
Jul 14

SVR-R1: Bootstrapping Multi-modal Reasoning with Self-verification in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 10966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Self-Verified Reasoner (SVR-R1), a multi-turn RL framework that turns a model's own verification into a learning signal for multimodal reasoning.

By Mingyuan Wu, Jingcheng Yang, Shengyi Qian, Xudong Wang, Jize Jiang, Qifan Wang, Aashu Singh, Khoi Pham, Fei Liu, Zhaolun Su, Zhuokai Zhao, Klara Nahrstedt, Jianyu Wang, Hanchao Yu
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Beyond Final Answers: CRYSTAL Benchmark for Transparent Multimodal Reasoning Evaluation

CRYSTAL is a diagnostic benchmark comprising 6,372 multimodal reasoning instances that assess models through verifiable intermediate steps. It introduces two metrics—Match F1 and Ordered Match F1—to evaluate step-level precision, recall, and order. The benchmark, built via a Delphi-inspired pipeline with four independent MLLMs, reveals systematic failures in current models, such as cherry‑picking and disordered reasoning, and proposes a Causal Process Reward and CPR‑Curriculum to improve reasoning performance.

By Wayner Barrios, SouYoung Jin
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

ConsensusBench: Benchmark of Consensus Nodes for LLM Reasoning via Outcome Reward Densifying

ConsensusBench is a new dataset that supplies rule‑based process‑level signals for large language model reasoning. It identifies key intermediate conclusions—called Consensus Nodes—by filtering correct trajectories and clustering semantically equivalent statements. By incorporating a process reward derived from these nodes into GRPO‑style reinforcement learning, the authors create ConsensusPR, which reduces reward sparsity and improves performance on benchmarks such as AIME, GSM8K, and MATH‑500.

By Shi-Qi Yan, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li, Zhen-Hua Ling
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Data-Efficient Curation for Multimodal Reasoning under Fixed Training Protocols

arXiv:2601. 10922v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study data curation for multimodal reasoning in a fixed-protocol fine-tuning regime, where the base model, optimizer, training schedule, and evaluation pipeline are held constant and the main degree of freedom is the training data.

By Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Boris Sobolev, Pavel Bushuyeu, Vikas Kumar, Haoyang Xu, Samuel Watson, Igor Molybog
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 8

StructReward: Efficient Structured Process Rewards for Self-Correcting Multimodal Reasoning

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective approach for improving multimodal reasoning. However, most existing methods evaluate an entire response using a binary reward based only on final-answer correctness, thereby discarding the supervision available in intermediate reasoning steps.

arXiv AI
Jul 28

Offline-Online Curriculum RL for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 23700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models exhibit capabilities on reasoning tasks, yet often produce flawed intermediate steps while yielding correct final answers.

By Wendi Deng, Hang Du, Guoshun Nan, Haokun Tian, Jiaqi Yu, Xinlei Cao, Jaile Li, Jingfeng Chen, Ling Deng, Ting Li, Hao Yang, Jun Liu, Xudong Jiang, Sicong Leng