Reasoning Paths Optimization: Learning to Reason and Explore From Diverse Paths

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Main Authors: Chia, Yew Ken, Chen, Guizhen, Xu, Weiwen, Tuan, Luu Anh, Poria, Soujanya, Bing, Lidong
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author Chia, Yew Ken
Chen, Guizhen
Xu, Weiwen
Tuan, Luu Anh
Poria, Soujanya
Bing, Lidong
author_facet Chia, Yew Ken
Chen, Guizhen
Xu, Weiwen
Tuan, Luu Anh
Poria, Soujanya
Bing, Lidong
contents Advanced models such as OpenAI o1 exhibit impressive problem-solving capabilities through step-by-step reasoning. However, they may still falter on more complex problems, making errors that disrupt their reasoning paths. We attribute this to the expansive solution space, where each step has the risk of diverging into mistakes. To enhance language model reasoning, we introduce a specialized training framework called Reasoning Paths Optimization (RPO), which enables learning to reason and explore from diverse paths. Our approach encourages favorable branches at each reasoning step while penalizing unfavorable ones, enhancing the model's overall problem-solving performance. Reasoning Paths Optimization does not rely on large-scale human-annotated rationales or outputs from closed-source models, making it scalable and data-efficient. We focus on multi-step reasoning tasks, such as math word problems and science-based exam questions. The experiments demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances the reasoning performance of large language models, with up to 3.1% and 4.3% improvement on GSM8K and MMLU (STEM) respectively. Our data and code can be found at https://reasoning-paths.github.io.
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spellingShingle Reasoning Paths Optimization: Learning to Reason and Explore From Diverse Paths
Chia, Yew Ken
Chen, Guizhen
Xu, Weiwen
Tuan, Luu Anh
Poria, Soujanya
Bing, Lidong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Advanced models such as OpenAI o1 exhibit impressive problem-solving capabilities through step-by-step reasoning. However, they may still falter on more complex problems, making errors that disrupt their reasoning paths. We attribute this to the expansive solution space, where each step has the risk of diverging into mistakes. To enhance language model reasoning, we introduce a specialized training framework called Reasoning Paths Optimization (RPO), which enables learning to reason and explore from diverse paths. Our approach encourages favorable branches at each reasoning step while penalizing unfavorable ones, enhancing the model's overall problem-solving performance. Reasoning Paths Optimization does not rely on large-scale human-annotated rationales or outputs from closed-source models, making it scalable and data-efficient. We focus on multi-step reasoning tasks, such as math word problems and science-based exam questions. The experiments demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances the reasoning performance of large language models, with up to 3.1% and 4.3% improvement on GSM8K and MMLU (STEM) respectively. Our data and code can be found at https://reasoning-paths.github.io.
title Reasoning Paths Optimization: Learning to Reason and Explore From Diverse Paths
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10858