arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 16

Reasoning Error from Known Fact: Step-Level Self-Consistency Group Relative Policy Optimization for LLMs

The paper introduces Step-level Self-Consistency Group Relative Policy Optimization (SSC‑GRPO), a method that assigns rewards to individual steps in a reasoning trace by evaluating self‑consistency across multiple rollouts. It targets Context‑Sensitive Factual Hallucinations—errors that arise when a model has the correct knowledge but produces false statements due to contextual interference. SSC‑GRPO outperforms previous approaches on mathematical reasoning benchmarks and hallucination leaderboards, offering a new way to detect and reduce hallucinations in large language model reasoning.

By Xiaomeng Hu, Jiaqi Hu, Hao Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhanming Shen, Wentao Ye, Junbo Zhao