Think Twice: Enhancing LLM Reasoning by Scaling Multi-round Test-time Thinking

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Auteurs principaux: Tian, Xiaoyu, Zhao, Sitong, Wang, Haotian, Chen, Shuaiting, Ji, Yunjie, Peng, Yiping, Zhao, Han, Li, Xiangang
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author Tian, Xiaoyu
Zhao, Sitong
Wang, Haotian
Chen, Shuaiting
Ji, Yunjie
Peng, Yiping
Zhao, Han
Li, Xiangang
author_facet Tian, Xiaoyu
Zhao, Sitong
Wang, Haotian
Chen, Shuaiting
Ji, Yunjie
Peng, Yiping
Zhao, Han
Li, Xiangang
contents Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated the effectiveness of test-time scaling, where extended reasoning processes substantially enhance model performance. Despite this, current models are constrained by limitations in handling long texts and reinforcement learning (RL) training efficiency. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effective test-time scaling approach Multi-round Thinking. This method iteratively refines model reasoning by leveraging previous answers as prompts for subsequent rounds. Extensive experiments across multiple models, including QwQ-32B and DeepSeek-R1, consistently show performance improvements on various benchmarks such as AIME 2024, MATH-500, GPQA-diamond, and LiveCodeBench. For instance, the accuracy of QwQ-32B improved from 80.3% (Round 1) to 82.1% (Round 2) on the AIME 2024 dataset, while DeepSeek-R1 showed a similar increase from 79.7% to 82.0%. These results confirm that Multi-round Thinking is a broadly applicable, straightforward approach to achieving stable enhancements in model performance, underscoring its potential for future developments in test-time scaling techniques. The key prompt: {Original question prompt} The assistant's previous answer is: <answer> {last round answer} </answer>, and please re-answer.
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spellingShingle Think Twice: Enhancing LLM Reasoning by Scaling Multi-round Test-time Thinking
Tian, Xiaoyu
Zhao, Sitong
Wang, Haotian
Chen, Shuaiting
Ji, Yunjie
Peng, Yiping
Zhao, Han
Li, Xiangang
Computation and Language
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated the effectiveness of test-time scaling, where extended reasoning processes substantially enhance model performance. Despite this, current models are constrained by limitations in handling long texts and reinforcement learning (RL) training efficiency. To address these issues, we propose a simple yet effective test-time scaling approach Multi-round Thinking. This method iteratively refines model reasoning by leveraging previous answers as prompts for subsequent rounds. Extensive experiments across multiple models, including QwQ-32B and DeepSeek-R1, consistently show performance improvements on various benchmarks such as AIME 2024, MATH-500, GPQA-diamond, and LiveCodeBench. For instance, the accuracy of QwQ-32B improved from 80.3% (Round 1) to 82.1% (Round 2) on the AIME 2024 dataset, while DeepSeek-R1 showed a similar increase from 79.7% to 82.0%. These results confirm that Multi-round Thinking is a broadly applicable, straightforward approach to achieving stable enhancements in model performance, underscoring its potential for future developments in test-time scaling techniques. The key prompt: {Original question prompt} The assistant's previous answer is: <answer> {last round answer} </answer>, and please re-answer.
title Think Twice: Enhancing LLM Reasoning by Scaling Multi-round Test-time Thinking
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19855