RMultiplex200K: Toward Reliable Multimodal Process Supervision for Visual Language Models on Telecommunications

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in many domains due to their ability to perform step-by-step reasoning. However, progress in the telecommunication (Telecom) domain remains limited, primarily due to the lack of high-quality datasets and domain-specific insights. In this paper, we introduce RMultiplex200K, a multimodal dataset designed to present step-wise reasoning rationales and correctness scores for real-world Telecom questions. This enables VLMs to engage in steplevel reasoning and verification using multimodal information, thereby facilitating reliable problem-solving. RMul-tiplex200K is highly scalable as it is constructed without human annotations, relying instead on our automatic planbased annotation (ApPA) method, which automatically synthesizes reasoning steps labeled with reward scores. With this dataset, we introduce TC-NAVIGATOR, a new mechanism for training multimodal process reward models to serve as reliable reasoning verifiers for VLMs. For instance, the Qwen-2-VL-72B and Llama-3.2-90B models, which initially achieve only 21.3% and 19.8% respectively on practice Telecom questions, reached 48.5% and 46.1% accuracy, respectively, after training with RMultiplex200K and verifying with TC-NAVIGATOR.