Inducing Process Supervision from Outcome-Only Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv:2609.36641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Process reward models (PRMs) have become a key component for LLMs, as their step-level feedback supports both post-training and test-time reasoning. However, training strong PRMs remains costly: human step annotation is difficult to scale, while Monte Carlo estimation is computationally expensive and can drift from the intrinsic correctness of steps. To get effective PRMs at low cost, we introduce TIPS (Thinking-Induced Process Supervision), an outcome-only reinforcement learning (RL) framework for training generative PRMs. In TIPS, the model g
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.36641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Process reward models (PRMs) have become a key component for LLMs, as their step-level feedback supports both post-training and test-time reasoning.
- However, training strong PRMs remains costly: human step annotation is difficult to scale, while Monte Carlo estimation is computationally expensive and can drift from the intrinsic correctness of steps.
- To get effective PRMs at low cost, we introduce TIPS (Thinking-Induced Process Supervision), an outcome-only reinforcement learning (RL) framework for training generative PRMs.
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“Inducing Process Supervision from Outcome-Only Reinforcement Learning” should be evaluated beyond branding and benchmark scores. Its practical importance will emerge in task accuracy, latency, unit cost, safety and integration with real workflows.

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