
Co-RL unlocks reasoning through diverse peers
Co-RL trains independent language and vision-language models using peer-derived rewards instead of ground-truth labels. Its diverse model cohorts reduce correlated errors and improve reasoning across text and multimodal benchmarks.
Co-RL’s strongest idea is that diversity can serve as a scalable substitute for increasingly expensive reward supervision.
- –Heterogeneous model families, sizes, and prompt phrasing create less-correlated errors
- –The framework avoids shared parameters and external judges, relying on cross-agent majority-vote rewards
- –Reported gains reach 3.0–8.6% across seven text benchmarks and 2.3–7.2% across four multimodal benchmarks
- –It addresses a key weakness of self-rewarding RL: feedback loops that homogenize behavior and trigger training collapse
- –The open-source implementation makes the approach testable, though multi-model RL remains compute-intensive
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