SimpleTIR: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Turn Tool-Integrated Reasoning
About
Large Language Models (LLMs) can significantly improve their reasoning capabilities by interacting with external tools, a paradigm known as Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR). However, extending TIR to multi-turn scenarios using Reinforcement Learning (RL) is often hindered by training instability and performance collapse. We identify that such instability is primarily caused by a distributional drift from external tool feedback, leading to the generation of low-probability tokens. This issue compounds over successive turns, causing catastrophic gradient norm explosions that derail the training process. To address this challenge, we introduce SimpleTIR , a plug-and-play algorithm that stabilizes multi-turn TIR training. Its core strategy is to identify and filter out trajectories containing void turns, i.e., turns that yield neither a code block nor a final answer. By removing these problematic trajectories from the policy update, SimpleTIR effectively blocks the harmful, high-magnitude gradients, thus stabilizing the learning dynamics. Extensive experiments show that SimpleTIR achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging math reasoning benchmarks, notably elevating the AIME24 score from a text-only baseline of 22.1 to 50.5 when starting from the Qwen2.5-7B base model. Furthermore, by avoiding the constraints of supervised fine-tuning, SimpleTIR encourages the model to discover diverse and sophisticated reasoning patterns, such as self-correction and cross-validation.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematical Reasoning | MATH500 (test) | -- | 895 | |
| Single-hop Question Answering | PopQA | -- | 186 | |
| Single-hop Question Answering | TriviaQA | -- | 133 | |
| General Reasoning | General Reasoning Suite Average | Pass@138.6 | 63 | |
| Mathematical Reasoning | AIME24 (test) | Pass@1 Score49.2 | 61 | |
| Tool Use | ToolBench | Average Pass Rate49.2 | 53 | |
| Travel Planning | TravelPlanner | Average Tokens Used16.2 | 46 | |
| Knowledge-intensive reasoning | MuSiQue | F1 Score17.8 | 43 | |
| Knowledge-intensive reasoning | HotpotQA | F1 Score0.307 | 41 | |
| Mathematical Reasoning | Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Suite (AIME24, AIME25, MATH500, AMC23, Hmmt25, Olympiad) | AIME 2024 Score58.33 | 33 |