Peer-Predictive Self-Training for Language Model Reasoning
Mechanisms for continued self-improvement of language models without external supervision remain an open challenge. We propose Peer-Predictive Self-Training (PST), a label-free fine-tuning framework in which multiple language models improve collaboratively by using a cross-model aggregate response as an internal training signal. Given a prompt, models generate responses sequentially; the final aggregated answer, which is often more reliable than individual responses in practice, serves as an internal reference for learning. We measure how informative each intermediate response is about the aggregate using pointwise mutual information (PMI), and use this signal to scale self-training updates: responses already aligned with the aggregate receive smaller updates, while less informative or misaligned responses receive larger ones. On mathematical reasoning benchmarks, including SimulEq, MATH-500-Numeric, and MultiArith, PST improves exact-match accuracy by 2.2--4.3 percentage points across Gemma-2-2B, LLaMA-3.2-1B, and Qwen2.5-1.5B, and reduces the average generator--verifier gap (GV-Gap) by 26--40%, while requiring no external supervision, no teacher--student hierarchy, and only cross-model interactions. These results suggest that peer-predictive feedback from cross-model generations can provide an effective mechanism for self-supervised language-model improvement.
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