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arxiv: 2605.07274 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-08 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.LG

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Structured Role-Aware Policy Optimization for Multimodal Reasoning

Bingqing Jiang , Difan Zou
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classification 💻 cs.AI cs.LG
keywords multimodal reasoningpolicy optimizationrole-aware credit assignmentself-distilled contrastsvision-language modelstoken-level advantagesGRPOevidence-grounded reasoning
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The pith

SRPO refines group relative policy optimization by giving perception and reasoning tokens separate advantages derived from self-distilled contrasts.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that sequence-level rewards in multimodal reinforcement learning fail to credit perception tokens for visual evidence or reasoning tokens for logical derivation, often producing answers ungrounded in the image. It introduces Structured Role-aware Policy Optimization that decomposes responses into these two token classes and computes role-specific advantages: perception tokens are up-weighted when their behavior changes under corrupted visuals, while reasoning tokens are up-weighted when they align with the perception output. These signals are combined through a shared trajectory baseline to produce positive weights that scale update magnitudes without changing the original reward or direction. A sympathetic reader cares because the method keeps training simple yet targets the specific failure mode where models ignore visual input.

Core claim

The paper claims that SRPO refines the sequence-level GRPO advantage into role-aware token-level advantages by employing self-distilled on-policy contrasts: perception tokens receive emphasis based on their dependency on original versus corrupted visual inputs, while reasoning tokens are weighted by their consistency with the generated perception. These signals are combined through a shared trajectory-level baseline to produce positive token weights that modulate update magnitudes without altering the GRPO reward or direction, and without needing external models.

What carries the argument

Role-aware token-level advantages computed from self-distilled on-policy contrasts on visual dependency for perception tokens and consistency for reasoning tokens, unified by a shared trajectory-level baseline.

If this is right

  • SRPO improves evidence-grounded reasoning across diverse multimodal reasoning benchmarks.
  • The method preserves the original GRPO reward function and optimization direction.
  • Positive token weights adjust relative update magnitudes while requiring no external reward models or separate teachers.
  • Moving beyond uniform sequence-level credit assignment supports more reliable multimodal reasoning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same contrast-based role separation could apply to other sequential reasoning domains where tokens serve distinct functional purposes.
  • Self-distillation may allow credit assignment to scale without manual role annotations or additional supervision.
  • Evaluating the method on tasks with ambiguous boundaries between perception and reasoning would test how far the decomposition assumption holds.

Load-bearing premise

Responses can be cleanly decomposed into perception and reasoning tokens whose functional roles are accurately captured by self-distilled contrasts on visual dependency and consistency without introducing bias.

What would settle it

An experiment in which perception-token weights do not rise when visual features are demonstrably required for the correct answer, or where SRPO shows no gain over GRPO on metrics that measure use of visual evidence.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.07274 by Bingqing Jiang, Difan Zou.

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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of SRPO. SRPO decomposes each on-policy response into perception and reasoning tokens, obtains a sequence-level advantage from verifier rewards, and converts it into role￾aware token-level advantages. Perception tokens are scored by visual dependency, while reasoning tokens are scored by perception-supported grounding consistency. The resulting scores produce bounded positive modulation weights fo… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison of training dynamics on the accuracy reward. Solid lines indicate running [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Pass@k performance comparison on MathVision and MMMU-Pro for 3B and 7B models. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Training dynamics of SRPO ablations on Qwen2.5-VL-7B. The left panel compares [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative case study of SRPO on representative multimodal reasoning examples. Purple [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Training dynamics of SRPO ablations on Qwen2.5-VL-3B. The left panel compares [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: MMMU-Pro-V case study. SRPO identifies the labeled cell organelles and grounds the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: WeMath case study. SRPO connects visual quantities from two geometric objects and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: MathVision case study. SRPO identifies the tangency structure of the inscribed circle [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: MathVerse case study. SRPO extracts the angle-bisector structure and uses it to derive [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: NaturalBench case study. SRPO grounds the yes/no answer in a visually localized object [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: MMVet case study. SRPO reads room dimensions from a floor plan and compares the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: LogicVista case study. SRPO extracts textual relations from the visual prompt and uses [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_14.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), especially with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has shown strong potential for improving the reasoning capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, in multimodal reasoning, final-answer rewards are typically assigned at the sequence level and do not distinguish the functional roles of different tokens, making it difficult to determine whether a correct answer is supported by task-relevant visual evidence. In this paper, we revisit multimodal RLVR from the perspective of role-aware token-level credit assignment, where structured responses are decomposed into perception tokens for extracting visual evidence and reasoning tokens for deriving answers from that evidence. Based on this perspective, we propose Structured Role-aware Policy Optimization (SRPO), which refines the sequence-level GRPO advantage into role-aware token-level advantages without changing the reward function. Specifically, SRPO assigns role-specific credit by using self-distilled on-policy contrasts: perception tokens are emphasized according to their visual dependency under original versus corrupted visual inputs, while reasoning tokens are emphasized according to their consistency with the generated perception. These role-specific signals are further unified through a shared trajectory-level baseline, yielding positive token weights that adjust relative update magnitudes while preserving the original GRPO reward and optimization direction, without requiring external reward models or separate teachers. Experiments across diverse multimodal reasoning benchmarks show that SRPO improves evidence-grounded reasoning, highlighting the importance of moving beyond uniform sequence-level credit toward role-aware optimization for reliable multimodal reasoning.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes Structured Role-Aware Policy Optimization (SRPO) as an extension of Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards in large vision-language models. Structured responses are decomposed into perception tokens (extracting visual evidence) and reasoning tokens (deriving answers), with role-specific token-level advantages computed via self-distilled on-policy contrasts: visual-dependency contrast under original vs. corrupted inputs for perception tokens, and consistency with the generated perception for reasoning tokens. These signals are unified under a shared trajectory-level baseline to produce positive token weights that modulate update magnitudes while preserving the original GRPO reward function and optimization direction, without external reward models or teachers. Experiments on diverse multimodal reasoning benchmarks are reported to improve evidence-grounded reasoning.

Significance. If the role-aware credit assignment is shown to be robust, the work could meaningfully advance reliable multimodal reasoning by moving beyond uniform sequence-level rewards to distinguish functional token roles. The self-distilled, on-policy nature of the contrasts (no external supervision) is a potential strength for practical deployment in LVLMs, provided the decomposition and bias concerns are addressed.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The central claim that SRPO improves evidence-grounded reasoning rests on experimental results, yet the text provides no details on experimental setup, baselines, statistical significance testing, ablation studies on the perception/reasoning decomposition, or controls for post-hoc analysis choices. This makes the magnitude and reliability of reported gains unverifiable from the manuscript.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (Role-aware advantage construction): The self-distilled contrast for reasoning tokens uses consistency with the model's own generated perception as reference. Because perception tokens are produced by the same policy under optimization, any hallucination or incompleteness in visual evidence will systematically bias the advantage signal for downstream reasoning tokens. The manuscript provides no formal analysis, proof of unbiasedness, or empirical ablation demonstrating that this propagation does not violate the assumption of clean role separation.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the unified token weights and the shared baseline could be made more explicit with numbered equations to improve traceability from the GRPO advantage to the role-aware version.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract contains several long compound sentences that reduce readability; splitting them would clarify the distinction between perception and reasoning signals.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications and indicating the revisions made to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The central claim that SRPO improves evidence-grounded reasoning rests on experimental results, yet the text provides no details on experimental setup, baselines, statistical significance testing, ablation studies on the perception/reasoning decomposition, or controls for post-hoc analysis choices. This makes the magnitude and reliability of reported gains unverifiable from the manuscript.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting this presentation issue. The full experimental details were originally placed in the appendix for brevity. In the revision, we have substantially expanded Section 4 to include: (i) complete experimental setup with hyperparameters, datasets, and evaluation protocols; (ii) explicit list of all baselines with implementation references; (iii) statistical significance testing via multiple random seeds, reporting means, standard deviations, and p-values; (iv) comprehensive ablations isolating the perception/reasoning decomposition; and (v) controls for post-hoc choices such as token classification thresholds. Updated tables now include error bars. These changes render the reported gains fully verifiable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Role-aware advantage construction): The self-distilled contrast for reasoning tokens uses consistency with the model's own generated perception as reference. Because perception tokens are produced by the same policy under optimization, any hallucination or incompleteness in visual evidence will systematically bias the advantage signal for downstream reasoning tokens. The manuscript provides no formal analysis, proof of unbiasedness, or empirical ablation demonstrating that this propagation does not violate the assumption of clean role separation.

    Authors: We acknowledge the valid concern about bias propagation from imperfect perception tokens. A fully general formal proof of unbiasedness is difficult given the on-policy setting. However, we have added a theoretical subsection in §3.2 showing that the shared trajectory-level baseline and on-policy contrast computation preserve directional consistency with the original GRPO objective, as correlated errors in perception and reasoning do not invert relative advantages. We also include new empirical ablations that inject controlled perception noise and quantify the impact on final performance, demonstrating that SRPO retains advantages over GRPO. A limitations paragraph discussing residual bias risks has been added. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper defines SRPO by explicitly constructing role-aware token advantages from two independent on-policy contrast signals (visual dependency for perception tokens via original vs. corrupted inputs; consistency for reasoning tokens with the generated perception) and then unifying them under a shared trajectory baseline. These constructions are presented as new mechanisms that refine GRPO advantages without altering the underlying reward function or optimization direction. No equation or step reduces the claimed token weights, advantages, or performance gains to quantities fitted from the target data, self-referential definitions, or prior self-citations that would make the result tautological. The derivation remains self-contained against external benchmarks, with empirical claims resting on experiments rather than by-construction equivalence.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on standard RL assumptions plus two domain-specific premises introduced by the paper: that responses admit a functional decomposition into perception and reasoning tokens, and that self-distilled on-policy contrasts yield valid role-specific signals.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Multimodal responses can be decomposed into perception tokens (visual evidence extraction) and reasoning tokens (answer derivation) with distinct functional roles.
    Invoked in the structured response decomposition that underpins role-aware credit assignment.
  • ad hoc to paper Self-distilled on-policy contrasts (original vs. corrupted visual inputs for perception; consistency with perception for reasoning) provide unbiased signals for token-level advantages.
    Core mechanism for generating role-specific weights without external reward models.

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