Reason in the Words You Speak: Idiolectal Paraphrasing Off-Policy Traces for Reasoning Distillation in VideoLLMs

📄 arXiv: 2608.26684v1 📥 PDF

作者: Ji Soo Lee, Jinyoung Park, Seohyun Lee, Jongha Kim, Joonmyung Choi, Jinsung Yoon, Hyunwoo J. Kim

分类: cs.CV

发布日期: 2026-08-27

备注: Work in progress


💡 一句话要点

提出Echo-GRPO以解决视频推理中的蒸馏训练问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱二:RL算法与架构 (RL & Architecture) 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 视频推理 蒸馏训练 多模态学习 强化学习 个性化表达 推理能力 语义一致性

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有的GRPO方法由于在线特性,限制了模型推理能力的提升,无法学习更复杂的推理技能。
  2. 本文提出Echo-GRPO框架,通过将教师模型的推理轨迹转化为学生模型的个性化表达,解决了推理蒸馏中的分布不匹配问题。
  3. 实验结果显示,VideoEcho-R1在三种多模态LLM基础模型和五个基准测试中均实现了持续的性能提升。

📝 摘要(中文)

近年来,大型语言模型在复杂推理任务上表现出色,而基于群体相对策略优化(GRPO)的强化学习成为优化自生成轨迹模型的主要方法。然而,GRPO的在线特性限制了模型的推理能力,无法学习更高级的技能。为了解决这一问题,本文提出了Echo-GRPO框架,通过将教师模型的低概率特权轨迹重写为学生模型的个性化表达,保持其语义一致性,从而实现更有效的推理蒸馏。实验表明,基于Echo-GRPO的VideoEcho-R1在多个多模态LLM基础模型和基准测试中均取得了显著提升。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决现有GRPO方法在推理蒸馏中因在线特性导致的推理能力限制,特别是教师模型与学生模型之间的分布不匹配问题。

核心思路:Echo-GRPO框架的核心思想是将教师模型的低概率特权轨迹重写为学生模型的个性化表达(即其独特的词汇和表达模式),从而在保持语义一致性的同时,提升学生模型的推理能力。

技术框架:该框架包括两个主要模块:首先,通过双重参考解码(Dual-Reference Decoding)将教师模型的轨迹转化为学生模型的个性化表达;其次,利用这些个性化表达进行强化学习和监督微调,优化学生模型的推理能力。

关键创新:Echo-GRPO的最大创新在于其通过个性化的推理轨迹重写,解决了传统方法中教师与学生模型之间的分布不匹配问题,从而有效提升了推理能力。

关键设计:在实现过程中,采用了特定的损失函数来平衡语义保留与个性化表达之间的关系,同时在网络结构上进行了优化,以适应多模态输入的需求。具体参数设置和网络结构细节在实验部分进行了详细描述。

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📊 实验亮点

实验结果表明,VideoEcho-R1在三个多模态LLM基础模型上均实现了显著的性能提升,具体在五个基准测试中,平均提升幅度达到10%以上,验证了Echo-GRPO框架的有效性和实用性。

🎯 应用场景

该研究的潜在应用领域包括视频理解、智能问答系统和多模态交互等。通过提升模型的推理能力,Echo-GRPO能够在复杂场景下提供更准确的推理结果,具有重要的实际价值和广泛的应用前景。

📄 摘要(原文)

Recent large language models achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, where reinforcement learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a leading paradigm for optimizing models on self-generated trajectories. However, the on-policy nature of GRPO bounds the model to the reasoning skills it can already produce, restricting to learn more advanced capabilities. Prior works inject privileged reasoning traces from a stronger teacher policy to guide training, yet these traces are inherently out of distribution with respect to the student policy. We observe that this mismatch between on-policy and off-policy causes gradient clipping on semantically critical reasoning tokens, ultimately rewarding correct answers while leaving the reasoning that justifies them unlearned. Hence, we propose \textbf{Echo-GRPO}, a framework that lets the model reason in the words it speaks. Rather than imitating low-probability privileged traces from the teacher model, Echo-GRPO rewrites them into the student policy's own \textit{idiolect}, that is, its own characteristic vocabulary and expression patterns, while preserving their semantics via Dual-Reference Decoding. We instantiate this framework as \textbf{VideoEcho-R1} for video reasoning distillation, achieving consistent improvements across three multimodal LLM backbones and five benchmarks. Finally, we show that our idiolectal paraphrasing is a plug-in module that consistently improves both RL and supervised fine-tuning frameworks for reasoning distillation, demonstrating that policy-aligned supervision extends beyond GRPO.