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ARXIV:2603.26126 · MULTIMODAL RL · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:54 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26126MULTIMODAL RLSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:54 UTCFRESHNESS STALEJinda Lu · Junkang Wu · Jinghan Li · Kexin Huang · Shuo Yang · Mingzhu Chen · +3 at arXiv
A novel reinforcement learning approach that guides multimodal models to better integrate visual evidence into their reasoning processes, improving accuracy on complex tasks.
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Pain A novel reinforcement learning approach that guides multimodal models to better integrate visual evidence into their reasoning processes, improving accuracy on complex tasks.
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A novel reinforcement learning approach that guides multimodal models to better integrate visual evidence into their reasoning processes, improving accuracy on complex tasks. However, a critical bottleneck remains: although models can attend to relevant…
Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have mainly focused on improving final answer correctness and strengthening visual grounding. However, a critical bottleneck remains: although models…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical…
Multimodal RL moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A novel reinforcement learning approach that guides multimodal models to better integrate visual evidence into their reasoning processes, improving accuracy on complex tasks.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26126A novel reinforcement learning approach that guides multimodal models to better integrate visual evidence into their reasoning processes, improving accuracy on complex tasks.
Abstract
Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have mainly focused on improving final answer correctness and strengthening visual grounding. However, a critical bottleneck remains: although models can attend to relevant visual regions, they often fail to effectively incorporate visual evidence into subsequent reasoning, leading to reasoning chains that are weakly grounded in visual facts. To address this issue, we propose Trajectory-Guided Reinforcement Learning (TGRL), which guides the policy model to integrate visual evidence into fine-grained reasoning processes using expert reasoning trajectories from stronger models. We further introduce token-level reweighting and trajectory filtering to ensure stable and effective policy optimization. Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical reasoning.
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A novel reinforcement learning approach that guides multimodal models to better integrate visual evidence into their reasoning processes, improving accuracy on complex tasks. However, a critical bottleneck remains: although models can attend to relevant visual regions, they ofte...
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Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have mainly focused on improving final answer correctness and strengthening visual grounding. However, a critical bottleneck remains: although models can attend...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical re...
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Multimodal RL moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
we propose Trajectory-Guided Reinforcement Learning (TGRL), which guides the policy model to integrate visual evidence into fine-grained reasoning processes using expert reasoning trajectories from stronger models.
This is the core claim of the paper, stated in the abstract and supported by experimental results.
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Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical reasoning.
The abstract states this, and the experimental results tables show consistent improvements for TGRL-GRPO and TGRL-DAPO across various datasets.
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We further introduce token-level reweighting and trajectory filtering to ensure stable and effective policy optimization.
This is explicitly stated in the abstract as a key component of the proposed method.
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Removing trajectory reweighting or filtering consistently degrades performance, demonstrating the importance of properly utilizing expert trajectories.
The experimental results table directly compares TGRL with versions 'w/o Filter' and 'w/o Reweight', showing performance drops.
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Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical reasoning.
This is a stated outcome in the abstract, supported by the overall performance improvements shown in the experiments.
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TGRL incorporates expert trajectories into RLVR by modifying the rollout distribution, advantage normalization, and token-level importance weighting.
This is a detailed explanation of how TGRL works, provided in the 'Discussion' section.
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The resulting objectives preserve the underlying gradient structure of GRPO-style RLVR objectives while enabling trajectory-level alignment, achieving a principled balance between expert guidance and on-policy exploration.
This is a high-level summary of the method's benefit, stated in the 'Discussion' section.
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we propose Trajectory-Guided Reinforcement Learning (TGRL), which guides the policy model to integrate visual evidence into fine-grained reasoning processes using expert reasoning trajectories from stronger models.
This is the core claim of the paper, stated in the abstract and supported by experimental results showing performance improvements.
partial
We further introduce token-level reweighting and trajectory filtering to ensure stable and effective policy optimization.
The abstract explicitly mentions these components as part of the proposed method, and the experimental section discusses their importance.
partial
Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical reasoning.
The abstract states this, and the experimental results tables show consistent improvements for TGRL-GRPO and TGRL-DAPO over their non-trajectory-guided counterparts.
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Removing trajectory reweighting or filtering consistently degrades performance, demonstrating the importance of properly utilizing expert trajectories.
The experimental results directly compare TGRL with variants lacking filtering or reweighting, showing performance drops.
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Extensive experiments on multiple multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that TGRL consistently improves reasoning performance and effectively bridges the gap between visual perception and logical reasoning.
This is a key outcome highlighted in the abstract, supported by the overall performance improvements shown in the experiments.
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