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Llama-Berry: Pairwise Optimization for O1-Like Mathematical Reasoning (arxiv.org)
2 points by pongogogo on Nov 2, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It lets a math model explore many solution paths, rewriting and improving them as it searches, then judges answers by comparing them in pairs to pick the best overall. This beat the usual step-by-step search approach on the hardest contest math problems.

Abstract · LLaMA-Berry: Pairwise Optimization for O1-like Olympiad-Level Mathematical Reasoning

This paper presents an advanced mathematical problem-solving framework, LLaMA-Berry, for enhancing the mathematical reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). The framework combines Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with iterative Self-Refine to optimize the reasoning path and utilizes a pairwise reward model to evaluate different paths globally. By leveraging the self-critic and rewriting capabilities of LLMs, Self-Refine applied to MCTS (SR-MCTS) overcomes the inefficiencies and limitations of conventional step-wise and greedy search algorithms by fostering a more efficient exploration of solution spaces. Pairwise Preference Reward Model~(PPRM), inspired by Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), is then used to model pairwise preferences between solutions, utilizing an Enhanced Borda Count (EBC) method to synthesize these preferences into a global ranking score to find better answers. This approach addresses the challenges of scoring variability and non-independent distributions in mathematical reasoning tasks. The framework has been tested on general and advanced benchmarks, showing superior performance in terms of search efficiency and problem-solving capability compared to existing methods like ToT and rStar, particularly in complex Olympiad-level benchmarks, including GPQA, AIME24 and AMC23.

Di Zhang, Jianbo Wu, Jingdi Lei, Tong Che, Jiatong Li, Tong Xie, Xiaoshui Huang, Shufei Zhang, Marco Pavone, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Dongzhan Zhou
arXiv:2410.02884 · cs.AI, cs.CL · submitted Oct 3, 2024 · updated Nov 21, 2024
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