Model Card for VPPO-8B
Model Details
Model Description
VPPO-8B is a state-of-the-art Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) specialized for complex multimodal reasoning tasks. It is the 8B parameter version of our model, fine-tuned from Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct using a novel reinforcement learning algorithm called Visually-Perceptive Policy Optimization (VPPO).
The core innovation of VPPO is its ability to solve the "uniform learning signal" problem that plagues standard RL fine-tuning. Instead of broadcasting a single reward to all tokens in a reasoning chain, VPPO intelligently identifies and focuses policy updates on the sparse, critical tokens that are highly dependent on visual input. This hierarchical "spotlight" mechanism allows the model to develop a more robust and genuine perception-grounded reasoning capability.
As a result, VPPO-8B demonstrates significant performance improvements over strong baselines across a wide range of challenging benchmarks, including mathematics, geometry, and logic problems. It also exhibits superior training stability and faster convergence.
- Model type: Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM)
- Finetuned from model:
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Model Sources
- Repository:
VPPO-RL
- Paper:
2510.09285
Training Details
Training Data
The model was fine-tuned on
ViRL39K, a diverse collection of multimodal reasoning problems. The original dataset can be found on the Hugging Face Hub:
TIGER-Lab/ViRL39K.
Training Procedure
The model was trained using our Visually-Perceptive Policy Optimization (VPPO) algorithm, which is a modification of the Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) framework. The procedure involves generating responses, calculating token-level visual dependency, and using this dependency to shape the advantage and filter gradients during the policy update step.
Training Hyperparameters
- Base Model: Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
- Algorithm: VPPO
- Steps: 150
- Learning Rate: 1e-6
- Rollout Batch Size: 384
- Max Response Length: 8192
- Entropy Penalty Coefficient: 0.12 for steps 0-130; 0.18 for steps 131-150
- Gradient Filtering Ratio (k): 0.4
- Advantage Shaping Min (β_min): 0.9
- Training Regime: bf16 mixed precision
Evaluation
Testing Data, Factors & Metrics
Testing Data
The model was evaluated on a comprehensive suite of 8 diverse multimodal reasoning benchmarks:
- Math & Geometry: Geo3k, We-Math, MathVerse, MathVision, DynaMath, MMK12
- Logic: LogicVista
- Multi-discipline: MMMU-Pro
Metrics
Performance is measured by average accuracy@8, which is the average success rate over 8 independent generations per problem (at temperature=1.0) using exact-match scoring.
Citation
If you use this model in your work, please cite our paper:
BibTeX:
1@article{huang2025spotlight,
2 title={Spotlight on Token Perception for Multimodal Reinforcement Learning},
3 author={Huang, Siyuan and Qu, Xiaoye and Li, Yafu and Luo, Yun and He, Zefeng and Liu, Daizong and Cheng, Yu},
4 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09285},
5 year={2025}
6}
