Align to the Pivot: Dual Alignment with Self-Feedback for Multilingual Math Reasoning

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Chunxu, Huang, Xin, Han, Xue, Huang, Shujian, Deng, Chao, Feng, Junlan
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author Zhao, Chunxu
Huang, Xin
Han, Xue
Huang, Shujian
Deng, Chao
Feng, Junlan
author_facet Zhao, Chunxu
Huang, Xin
Han, Xue
Huang, Shujian
Deng, Chao
Feng, Junlan
contents Despite the impressive reasoning abilities demonstrated by large language models (LLMs), empirical evidence indicates that they are not language agnostic as expected, leading to performance declines in multilingual settings, especially for low-resource languages. We attribute the decline to the model's inconsistent multilingual understanding and reasoning alignment. To address this, we present Pivot-Aligned Self-Feedback Multilingual Reasoning (PASMR), aiming to improve the alignment of multilingual math reasoning abilities in LLMs. This approach designates the model's primary language as the pivot language. During training, the model first translates questions into the pivot language to facilitate better alignment of reasoning patterns. The reasoning process in the target language is then supervised by the pivot language's reasoning answers, thereby establishing a cross-lingual self-feedback mechanism without relying on external correct answers or reward models. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method enhances both the model's understanding of questions and its reasoning capabilities, leading to notable task improvements.
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spellingShingle Align to the Pivot: Dual Alignment with Self-Feedback for Multilingual Math Reasoning
Zhao, Chunxu
Huang, Xin
Han, Xue
Huang, Shujian
Deng, Chao
Feng, Junlan
Computation and Language
Despite the impressive reasoning abilities demonstrated by large language models (LLMs), empirical evidence indicates that they are not language agnostic as expected, leading to performance declines in multilingual settings, especially for low-resource languages. We attribute the decline to the model's inconsistent multilingual understanding and reasoning alignment. To address this, we present Pivot-Aligned Self-Feedback Multilingual Reasoning (PASMR), aiming to improve the alignment of multilingual math reasoning abilities in LLMs. This approach designates the model's primary language as the pivot language. During training, the model first translates questions into the pivot language to facilitate better alignment of reasoning patterns. The reasoning process in the target language is then supervised by the pivot language's reasoning answers, thereby establishing a cross-lingual self-feedback mechanism without relying on external correct answers or reward models. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method enhances both the model's understanding of questions and its reasoning capabilities, leading to notable task improvements.
title Align to the Pivot: Dual Alignment with Self-Feedback for Multilingual Math Reasoning
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17671