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The reward models supervised by processes (PRMS) offer fine grain comments and step by step on model responses, helping to select effective reasoning routes for complex tasks. Unlike output reward models (ORMS), which evaluate the responses based on the final outputs, the PRM provide detailed evaluations in each step, which makes them particularly valuable for intensive applications in reasoning. Although the PRM have been studied widely in language tasks, their application in multimodal environments remains largely unexplored. Most vision language reward models still depend on the ORM approach, highlighting the need for greater research on how PRM can improve multimodal learning and reasoning.
The existing rewards reference points focus mainly on text -based models, with some specifically designed for PRM. In the domain of the vision language, the evaluation methods generally evaluate the wide capabilities of the model, which include knowledge, reasoning, equity and security. VL-REWARDBENCH is the first reference point that incorporates reinforcement learning preference data to refine the tasks of the intensive vision language. In addition, the multimodal rewards bank expands the evaluation criteria beyond the response tasks of standard visual questions (VQA), which cover six key areas: correction, preference, knowledge, reasoning, security and VQA) through expert annotations. These reference points provide a basis for developing more effective reward models for multimodal learning.
Researchers from UC Santa Cruz, UT Dallas and amazon Research Benchmarked Vllms such as Orms and PRM in multiple tasks, revealing that neither of them constantly exceeds the other. To address the evaluation gaps, they introduced Vilbench, a reference point that requires feedback of rewards at pace, where GPT-4O with a chain of thought reached only 27.3% precision. In addition, they collected 73.6k samples in vision language using an improved tree search algorithm, training a PRM 3B that improved the precision of the evaluation by 3.3%. His study provides information on the modeling of rewards in the language of vision and highlights the challenges in the multimodal evaluation of the step.
VLLM are increasingly effective in several tasks, particularly when evaluated for the test time scale. Seven models were compared using the LLM-AS-A-Jeje approach to analyze their critical skills in five vision language sets. A better N (BON) configuration was used, where VLLMS obtained responses generated by GPT-4O. The key results reveal that the ORM overcome the PRM in most cases, except in real world's tasks. In addition, the strongest VLLM does not always stand out as reward models, and a hybrid approach between ORM and PRM is optimal. In addition, VLLM benefits from the heavy text tasks rather than visuals, which underlines the need for specialized models of vision language.
To evaluate the effectiveness of Vilprm, experiments were carried out in Vilbench using different RMS and solution samplers. The study compared the performance in multiple VLLM, including QWEN2.5-VL-3B, Internvl-2.5-8b, GPT-4O and O1. The results show that the PRM generally exceed the ORM, improving accuracy in 1.4%, although O1 responses showed a minimum difference due to limited details. Vilprm beat other PRM, including URSA, at 0.9%, demonstrating a higher consistency in the response selection. In addition, the findings suggest that existing VLLMs are not robust enough as reward models, highlighting the need for PRMS specialized in the vision language that work far beyond mathematical reasoning tasks.
In conclusion, PRM in vision language work well when the reasoning steps are segmented, as seen in structured tasks such as mathematics. However, in functions with unclear steps divisions, PRM can reduce precision, particularly in dominant visual cases. Prioritize the key steps instead of treating everyone also improves performance. In addition, current multimodal reward models fight generalization, since PRM trained in specific domains often fail to others. Improving training by incorporating various sources of data and adaptive reward mechanisms is crucial. The introduction of Vilreward-73K improves the accuracy of PRM by 3.3%, but additional advances are needed in the segmentation and evaluation frames of steps for robust multimodal models.
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