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The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation

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AI Aggregator Learns to Outsmart Majority Voting in Math Problems

This paper introduces AggLM, an AI model trained to combine multiple solution attempts to math problems, outperforming simple majority voting and achieving a 50% accuracy on AIME25. It uses reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards, learning to synthesize correct answers even when they don't appear in the initial solution set.

Explain Like I'm Five

Imagine a robot judge for math contests. It reads several student answers, figures out which parts are right, and puts them together to get the correct final answer, even if no single student got it completely right.

Possible Conflicts of Interest

The authors are affiliated with Meta/FAIR, which may have an interest in developing advanced AI models.

Identified Limitations

Limited dataset diversity
The model is trained and evaluated on a small set of math competition problems. It's unclear how well it generalizes to other math domains or real-world problem-solving scenarios.
Dependence on base LLM
AggLM relies on the output of a base language model for generating initial solutions. Its performance is therefore tied to the quality and diversity of these initial solutions.
Computational cost
While more token-efficient than naive majority voting with many samples, AggLM still requires generating and processing multiple solutions, adding computational overhead.

Rating Explanation

This paper presents a novel approach to solution aggregation using reinforcement learning, demonstrating significant improvements over existing methods. The evaluation is rigorous and the ablation studies provide valuable insights. However, limited dataset diversity and reliance on a base LLM are notable limitations.

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Original Title: The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Uploaded: September 09, 2025 at 03:42 AM
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