DyCo-RL: 动态跨模态协调用于视觉推理
阅读原文· arxiv.org强化学习与可验证奖励(RLVR)是增强多模态大语言模型视觉推理的主流范式,但现有方法只优化结果,忽略生成中的细粒度跨模态协调。token级分析显示,模型在链式推理中无法动态交替提取视觉证据与合成文本上下文,导致推理失败。为此提出DyCo-RL,将动态跨模态协调融入RLVR优化:利用Fisher-Rao测地距离测量模态内注意力转移,为token分配视觉或文本功能角色,基于实际注意力与角色对齐度进行优势重加权。DyCo-RL在Qwen2.5-VL-3B/7B上应用,一致改进四种代表性RLVR算法,在七个视觉中心与数学推理基准上取得提升。
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a leading paradigm for enhancing visual reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, existing RLVR methods optimize primarily for the reasoning outcome, fundamentally overlooking the fine-grained cross-modal coordination required during the generation process. Through token-level analyses and controlled interventions, we reveal that during Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, MLLMs frequently fail to dynamically alternate between extracting visual evidence and synthesizing textual context-a coordination breakdown that is causally linked to reasoning failures. Motivated by these findings, we propose DyCo-RL, which integrates dynamic cross-modal coordination into RLVR optimization. Specifically, DyCo-RL uses the Fisher-Rao geodesic distance to measure within-modality attention shifts, assigning tokens to either visually-oriented or text-oriented functional roles. It then evaluates the alignment between a token's actual attention allocation and its assigned role, leveraging this score for alignment-guided advantage reweighting during policy optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the algorithm-agnostic DyCo-RL, when applied to Qwen2.5-VL-3B/7B, consistently improves four representative RLVR algorithms across seven benchmarks spanning visual-centric and mathematical reasoning.