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š¤ Advanced reasoning LLMs keep releasing before your current MLLM alignment is done? Try our RACRO! Train once, flexible change to novel LLM reasoners during inference time!
š¢ RACRO is a novel methodology to build multi-modal large reasoning models. By decoupling multi-modal reasoning into 1) query-conditioned captioning and 2) text-only reasoning, we achieve SoTA results on multi-modal reasoning benchmarks, while supporting flexible changes to any advanced reasoning models during inference. We further propose CRO, a novel GRPO-variant to reinforce query-conditioned captioning with only verifiable data for multi-modal mathematical questions.
āØ Highlights
ā State-of-the-art multi-modal reasoning: we achieve SoTA performance on multi-modal mathematical benchmarks, exceeding advanced commercial models like Claude-3.7-Sonnet and Gemini-2.0-Flash.
ā Inference-time scalability: thanks to the perceptual decoupling, we can flexibly change LLM reasoners during inference, providing a unique inference-time scalability for multi-modal reasoning.
ā Highly efficient: With only a single round of Caption Reward Optimization (CRO) training on ~39K samples, RACRO gets rid of burdensome multi-modal alignment (e.g., 4.1T tokens for Qwen2.5-VL).
š„ You are all welcome to try and star!
- Paper: Perceptual Decoupling for Scalable Multi-modal Reasoning via Reward-Optimized Captioning (2506.04559)
- Github: https://github.com/gyhdog99/RACRO2
- Demo: Emova-ollm/RACRO-demo
š¢ RACRO is a novel methodology to build multi-modal large reasoning models. By decoupling multi-modal reasoning into 1) query-conditioned captioning and 2) text-only reasoning, we achieve SoTA results on multi-modal reasoning benchmarks, while supporting flexible changes to any advanced reasoning models during inference. We further propose CRO, a novel GRPO-variant to reinforce query-conditioned captioning with only verifiable data for multi-modal mathematical questions.
āØ Highlights
ā State-of-the-art multi-modal reasoning: we achieve SoTA performance on multi-modal mathematical benchmarks, exceeding advanced commercial models like Claude-3.7-Sonnet and Gemini-2.0-Flash.
ā Inference-time scalability: thanks to the perceptual decoupling, we can flexibly change LLM reasoners during inference, providing a unique inference-time scalability for multi-modal reasoning.
ā Highly efficient: With only a single round of Caption Reward Optimization (CRO) training on ~39K samples, RACRO gets rid of burdensome multi-modal alignment (e.g., 4.1T tokens for Qwen2.5-VL).
š„ You are all welcome to try and star!
- Paper: Perceptual Decoupling for Scalable Multi-modal Reasoning via Reward-Optimized Captioning (2506.04559)
- Github: https://github.com/gyhdog99/RACRO2
- Demo: Emova-ollm/RACRO-demo
