LLaDA-PRM: A Bidirectional Step-Level Reasoning Evaluator
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arXiv:2609.22700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Step-level reasoning evaluators are commonly based on autoregressive language models, whose causal attention restricts each step representation to the problem, previous steps, and the current step. Yet, when the complete solution is available, the validity of an earlier step may become clearer only through its downstream consequences. We validate this hypothesis through a controlled 54-run comparison of causal and bidirectional LLaDA evaluators at 1B--3B scale, changing only the self-attention mask, and find bidirectional attention yields consi
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.22700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Step-level reasoning evaluators are commonly based on autoregressive language models, whose causal attention restricts each step representation to the problem, previous steps, and the current step.
- Yet, when the complete solution is available, the validity of an earlier step may become clearer only through its downstream consequences.
- We validate this hypothesis through a controlled 54-run comparison of causal and bidirectional LLaDA evaluators at 1B--3B scale, changing only the self-attention mask, and find bidirectional attention yields consi
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“LLaDA-PRM: A Bidirectional Step-Level Reasoning Evaluator” 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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