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Abstract - GeneralThinker: Domain-General Reasoning through Likelihood-Guided Answer-Conditioned Optimization
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves language model reasoning, but its reliance on domain-specific verifiers, sparse outcome rewards, and coarse-grained credit assignment limits its applicability. We introduce GeneralThinker, an on-policy framework that reformulates reasoning supervision as dense answer-conditioned optimization, enabling response-level evaluation and token-level credit assignment without domain-specific verifiers. GeneralThinker evaluates generated reasoning trajectories using the likelihood of the ground-truth answer and derives token-wise compatibility signals for fine-grained credit assignment. To stabilize optimization, it constrains token-level updates through clipping and direction-preserving modulation. Across 11 benchmarks spanning mathematics, STEM, and general reasoning, GeneralThinker achieves the best average performance. Further analyses show that uncontrolled token-level modulation can destabilize training, whereas controlled modulation makes fine-grained credit assignment consistently effective.
通用思考者:通过似然引导的答案条件优化实现通用推理 /
GeneralThinker: Domain-General Reasoning through Likelihood-Guided Answer-Conditioned Optimization
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文提出了一种名为GeneralThinker的通用推理训练框架,它不再依赖特定领域的验证器,而是通过计算最终正确答案的模型似然度来评估推理过程,并对每一步推理进行精细的奖励或惩罚,从而在数学、科学和通用推理等多种任务中均取得最佳效果。