COSMO-RL: Towards Trustworthy LMRMs via Joint Safety and Stability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04196v1
• Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:30:03 GMT
• Title: COSMO-RL: Towards Trustworthy LMRMs via Joint Safety and Stability
• Authors: Yizhuo Ding, Mingkang Chen, Qiuhua Liu, Fenghua Weng, Wanying Qu, Yue Yang, Yugang Jiang, Zuxuan Wu, Yanwei Fu, Wenqi Shao,
• Abstract summary: We present COSMO-RL, a mixed reinforcement learning framework that trains LMRMs under multimodal, multitask, and multiobjective signals.<n>Our approach aims to let safety and capability grow together in one stable pipeline rather than competing during alignment.
• Score: 101.80200069234377
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Multimodal Reasoning Models (LMRMs) are moving into real applications, where they must be both useful and safe. Safety is especially challenging in multimodal settings: images and text can be combined to bypass guardrails, and single objective training can cause policy drift that yields over-refusal on benign inputs or unsafe compliance on risky ones. We present COSMO-RL, a mixed reinforcement learning framework that trains reasoning oriented LMRMs under multimodal, multitask, and multiobjective signals, and we release the resulting model, COSMO-R1. Our approach aims to let safety and capability grow together in one stable pipeline rather than competing during alignment. In experiments, COSMO-R1 improves safety while maintaining-and often improving multimodal reasoning and instruction following, shows stronger robustness to multimodal jailbreaks, and reduces unnecessary refusals. The framework also transfers across backbones with consistent gains. Ablations support the design choices, indicating a simple path to advancing safety and general capability together in LMRMs.

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