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Autori principali: Zhang, Xue, Liang, Yunlong, Meng, Fandong, Zhang, Songming, Huang, Kaiyu, Chen, Yufeng, Xu, Jinan, Zhou, Jie
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07300
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author Zhang, Xue
Liang, Yunlong
Meng, Fandong
Zhang, Songming
Huang, Kaiyu
Chen, Yufeng
Xu, Jinan
Zhou, Jie
author_facet Zhang, Xue
Liang, Yunlong
Meng, Fandong
Zhang, Songming
Huang, Kaiyu
Chen, Yufeng
Xu, Jinan
Zhou, Jie
contents Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable performance on complex reasoning tasks by adopting the ``think-then-answer'' paradigm, which enhances both accuracy and interpretability. However, current LRMs exhibit two critical limitations when processing non-English languages: (1) They often struggle to maintain input-output language consistency; (2) They generally perform poorly with wrong reasoning paths and lower answer accuracy compared to English. These limitations significantly compromise the interpretability of reasoning processes and degrade the user experience for non-English speakers, hindering the global deployment of LRMs. To address these limitations, we propose M-Thinker, which is trained by the GRPO algorithm that involves a Language Consistency (LC) reward and a novel Cross-lingual Thinking Alignment (CTA) reward. Specifically, the LC reward defines a strict constraint on the language consistency between the input, thought, and answer. Besides, the CTA reward compares the model's non-English reasoning paths with its English reasoning path to transfer its own reasoning capability from English to non-English languages. Through an iterative RL procedure, our M-Thinker-1.5B/4B/7B models not only achieve nearly 100% language consistency and superior performance on two multilingual benchmarks (MMATH and PolyMath), but also exhibit excellent generalization on out-of-domain languages.
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spellingShingle Think Natively: Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning with Consistency-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning
Zhang, Xue
Liang, Yunlong
Meng, Fandong
Zhang, Songming
Huang, Kaiyu
Chen, Yufeng
Xu, Jinan
Zhou, Jie
Computation and Language
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable performance on complex reasoning tasks by adopting the ``think-then-answer'' paradigm, which enhances both accuracy and interpretability. However, current LRMs exhibit two critical limitations when processing non-English languages: (1) They often struggle to maintain input-output language consistency; (2) They generally perform poorly with wrong reasoning paths and lower answer accuracy compared to English. These limitations significantly compromise the interpretability of reasoning processes and degrade the user experience for non-English speakers, hindering the global deployment of LRMs. To address these limitations, we propose M-Thinker, which is trained by the GRPO algorithm that involves a Language Consistency (LC) reward and a novel Cross-lingual Thinking Alignment (CTA) reward. Specifically, the LC reward defines a strict constraint on the language consistency between the input, thought, and answer. Besides, the CTA reward compares the model's non-English reasoning paths with its English reasoning path to transfer its own reasoning capability from English to non-English languages. Through an iterative RL procedure, our M-Thinker-1.5B/4B/7B models not only achieve nearly 100% language consistency and superior performance on two multilingual benchmarks (MMATH and PolyMath), but also exhibit excellent generalization on out-of-domain languages.
title Think Natively: Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning with Consistency-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07300