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Main Authors: Li, Yanyang, Lyu, Michael, Wang, Liwei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15771
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author Li, Yanyang
Lyu, Michael
Wang, Liwei
author_facet Li, Yanyang
Lyu, Michael
Wang, Liwei
contents Solving complex tasks in a single attempt is challenging for large language models (LLMs). Iterative interaction with the environment and feedback is often required to achieve success, making effective feedback utilization a critical topic. Existing approaches either struggle with length generalization or rely on naive retries without leveraging prior information. In this paper, we introduce FTTT, a novel paradigm that formulates feedback utilization as an optimization problem at test time. Additionally, we propose a learnable test-time optimizer, OpTune, to effectively exploit feedback. Experiments on two LLMs across four reasoning datasets demonstrate that FTTT and OpTune achieve superior scalability and performance.
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spellingShingle Learning to Reason from Feedback at Test-Time
Li, Yanyang
Lyu, Michael
Wang, Liwei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Solving complex tasks in a single attempt is challenging for large language models (LLMs). Iterative interaction with the environment and feedback is often required to achieve success, making effective feedback utilization a critical topic. Existing approaches either struggle with length generalization or rely on naive retries without leveraging prior information. In this paper, we introduce FTTT, a novel paradigm that formulates feedback utilization as an optimization problem at test time. Additionally, we propose a learnable test-time optimizer, OpTune, to effectively exploit feedback. Experiments on two LLMs across four reasoning datasets demonstrate that FTTT and OpTune achieve superior scalability and performance.
title Learning to Reason from Feedback at Test-Time
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15771