Perception-R1: Pioneering Perception Policy with Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Yu, En, Lin, Kangheng, Zhao, Liang, Yin, Jisheng, Wei, Yana, Peng, Yuang, Wei, Haoran, Sun, Jianjian, Han, Chunrui, Ge, Zheng, Zhang, Xiangyu, Jiang, Daxin, Wang, Jingyu, Tao, Wenbing
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author Yu, En
Lin, Kangheng
Zhao, Liang
Yin, Jisheng
Wei, Yana
Peng, Yuang
Wei, Haoran
Sun, Jianjian
Han, Chunrui
Ge, Zheng
Zhang, Xiangyu
Jiang, Daxin
Wang, Jingyu
Tao, Wenbing
author_facet Yu, En
Lin, Kangheng
Zhao, Liang
Yin, Jisheng
Wei, Yana
Peng, Yuang
Wei, Haoran
Sun, Jianjian
Han, Chunrui
Ge, Zheng
Zhang, Xiangyu
Jiang, Daxin
Wang, Jingyu
Tao, Wenbing
contents Inspired by the success of DeepSeek-R1, we explore the potential of rule-based reinforcement learning (RL) in MLLM post-training for perception policy learning. While promising, our initial experiments reveal that incorporating a thinking process through RL does not consistently lead to performance gains across all visual perception tasks. This leads us to delve into the essential role of RL in the context of visual perception. In this work, we return to the fundamentals and explore the effects of RL on different perception tasks. We observe that the perceptual complexity is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of RL. We also observe that reward design plays a crucial role in further approching the upper limit of model perception. To leverage these findings, we propose Perception-R1, a scalable RL framework using GRPO during MLLM post-training. With a standard Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct, Perception-R1 achieves +4.2% on RefCOCO+, +17.9% on PixMo-Count, +4.2% on PageOCR, and notably, 31.9% AP on COCO2017 val for the first time, establishing a strong baseline for perception policy learning.
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spellingShingle Perception-R1: Pioneering Perception Policy with Reinforcement Learning
Yu, En
Lin, Kangheng
Zhao, Liang
Yin, Jisheng
Wei, Yana
Peng, Yuang
Wei, Haoran
Sun, Jianjian
Han, Chunrui
Ge, Zheng
Zhang, Xiangyu
Jiang, Daxin
Wang, Jingyu
Tao, Wenbing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Inspired by the success of DeepSeek-R1, we explore the potential of rule-based reinforcement learning (RL) in MLLM post-training for perception policy learning. While promising, our initial experiments reveal that incorporating a thinking process through RL does not consistently lead to performance gains across all visual perception tasks. This leads us to delve into the essential role of RL in the context of visual perception. In this work, we return to the fundamentals and explore the effects of RL on different perception tasks. We observe that the perceptual complexity is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of RL. We also observe that reward design plays a crucial role in further approching the upper limit of model perception. To leverage these findings, we propose Perception-R1, a scalable RL framework using GRPO during MLLM post-training. With a standard Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct, Perception-R1 achieves +4.2% on RefCOCO+, +17.9% on PixMo-Count, +4.2% on PageOCR, and notably, 31.9% AP on COCO2017 val for the first time, establishing a strong baseline for perception policy learning.
title Perception-R1: Pioneering Perception Policy with Reinforcement Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07954