General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains (beyond Math)

🪡 We introduce a novel framework within GRPO to utilize model-based verifier to support wider range of answer types. We train on WebInstruct-verfied, a dataset covering wide range of reasoning topics beyond math. We demonstrate substantial improvements over traditional binary rule-based rewards across diverse domains beyond math.

✅ Model-based verifier to support verification of diverse answer types like math expression, string, list, fraction, matrix, etc;
✅ Small 7B/14B models achieve robust cross-domain rewards; It boosts MMLU-Pro performance by 13%.
✅ Our method does not require any additional SFT.

Check out our Arxiv Paper for the details!

Highlights

Our experimental results are as follows:

Our discpline distribution is described as follows:

Our model-based verifier helps scaling the verifiable reasoning questions:

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Resources

Training Data

Data	Size	Link
WebInstruct-verified	230k	🤗

General Verifier

Model	Backbone	Link
General-Verifier	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B	🤗

Check out HF page to learn how to use it. Feel free to plug this into your current RL-training framework.

Model Checkpoint

Model	Backbone	Link
General-Reasoner-Qwen2.5-7B	Qwen2.5-7B-Base	🤗
General-Reasoner-Qwen2.5-14B	Qwen2.5-14B-Base	🤗
General-Reasoner-Qwen3-4B	Qwen3-4B-Base	🤗
General-Reasoner-Qwen3-14B	Qwen3-14B-Base	🤗

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Installation

pip install torch==2.4.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
pip install -e ./verl
pip install vllm==0.8.3
pip install flashinfer-python
pip install math-verify

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Training

1. Prepare Data

python data_preprocess.py --local-dir <data_dir>/webinstruct-verified

2. Download Verifier

huggingface-cli download TIGER-Lab/general-verifier --local-dir <data_dir>/general-reasoner-verifier

3. Download Backbone Model

huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B --local-dir <data_dir>/Qwen2.5-7B

4. Configure Training Script

Edit the environment variables in train_general_reasoner.sh to fit your system setup.

5. Launch Ray Cluster

ray start --address <MASTER-NODE-IP>:6379

6. Start Training

bash train_general_reasoner.sh

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Evaluation

MMLU-PRO:

python -m evaluation.eval_mmlupro \
    --model_path TIGER-Lab/General-Reasoner-14B \
    --output_file output-mmlupro-General-Reasoner-14B.json

SuperGPQA:

python -m evaluation.eval_supergpqa \
    --model_path TIGER-Lab/General-Reasoner-14B \
    --output_file output-supergpqa-General-Reasoner-14B.json

Math-Related Tasks & GPQA

We evaluate math and GPQA tasks using the simple-eval framework. For non-multiple choice questions, answer equivalence is verified using GPT-4o.

1. Configure OpenAI Key

export OPENAI_API_KEY=<replace by OPENAI API KEY>

2. Serve the Model

vllm serve TIGER-Lab/General-Reasoner-14B --tensor-parallel-size 4

3. Run Evaluation

python -m evaluation.simple-evals.run_simple_evals_qwen \
    --model General-Reasoner-14B

By default, the model uses greedy decoding. For AIME24 and AIME25, scores are averaged over 32 runs with temperature 1. For more configuration details, refer to evaluation/simple-evals/run_simple_evals_qwen.py.

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Detailed Results

Our 7B and 14B models are trained from the corresponding base qwen models.

General results

Model Name	MMLU-Pro	GPQA	SuperGPQA	TheoremQA	BBEH
Qwen2.5-7B-Base	47.7	25.8	26.7	29.1	8.0
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	57.0	33.8	30.7	36.6	12.2
SimpleRL-Qwen2.5-7B-Zoo	51.5	24.2	29.9	38.0	11.9
General-Reasoner-7B	58.9	34.3	34.2	45.3	12.5
Qwen2.5-14B-Base	53.3	32.8	30.7	33.0	10.8
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct	62.7	41.4	35.8	41.9	15.2
SimpleRL-Qwen2.5-14B-Zoo	64.0	39.4	35.7	40.8	13.6
General-Reasoner-14B	66.6	43.4	39.5	44.3	15.2
Qwen3-4B-Base	51.6	26.3	25.4	34.8	8.1
Qwen3-4B-Instruct	61.8	41.7	32.1	42.0	14.9
General-Reasoner-Qw3-4B	62.8	42.9	32.5	48.3	12.2
Qwen3-14B-Base	64.2	45.9	36.5	44.0	13.0
Qwen3-14B-Instruct	70.9	54.8	39.8	42.4	19.2
General-Reasoner-Qw3-14B	70.3	56.1	39.9	54.4	17.3

Math-related results

Model Name	MATH-500	Olympiad	Minerva	GSM8K	AMC	AIME24x32	AIME25x32
Qwen2.5-7B-Base	60.2	28.6	36.0	83.1	30.0	3.8	1.4
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	75.0	39.4	45.2	90.9	52.5	12.5	8.5
SimpleRL-Qwen2.5-7B-Zoo	74.0	41.9	49.6	90.7	60.0	15.2	7.5
General-Reasoner-7B	76.0	37.9	54.0	92.7	55.0	13.8	10.4
Qwen2.5-14B-Base	65.4	33.5	24.3	91.6	37.5	3.6	2.9
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct	77.4	44.7	52.2	94.5	57.5	12.2	11.0
SimpleRL-Qwen2.5-14B-Zoo	77.2	44.6	54.0	94.2	60.0	12.9	11.8
General-Reasoner-14B	78.6	42.1	58.1	94.2	70.0	17.5	16.9
Qwen3-4B-Base	68.2	34.8	42.3	72.6	47.5	10.3	6.7
Qwen3-4B-Instruct(non-think)	80.4	49.0	57.0	92.0	62.5	22.5	16.1
General-Reasoner-Qw3-4B	80.6	47.7	57.7	92.2	60.0	20.0	15.4
Qwen3-14B-Base	74.6	44.3	55.9	93.2	55.0	14.7	11.4
Qwen3-14B-Instruct(non-think)	82.0	52.4	59.9	93.9	57.5	28.5	25.1
General-Reasoner-Qw3-14B	83.8	51.9	68.0	94.4	70.0	24.4	19.2

Acknowledgements

This project is built upon the following open-source projects:

• VERL
• simpleRL-reason
• simple-evals

Citation

@article{general-reasoner,
      title={General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains}, 
      author={Xueguang Ma and Qian Liu and Dongfu Jiang and Ge Zhang and Zejun Ma and Wenhu Chen},
      year={2025},
      journal={arXiv:2505.14652},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14652}, 
}