Outcome-only reinforcement learning can teach models to judge reasoning steps

TIPS trained generative process reward models using final-outcome labels alone, yet improved their ability to identify faulty intermediate steps.

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Shengda Fan · Xin Cong · Zhong Zhang · Haotian Chen · Yankai Lin

Renmin University of China · Tsinghua University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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TIPS prompts a language model to generate a chain of thought, step-level validity labels and a final outcome label.

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Outcome-only RL can induce step-level process supervision in generative reward models, reaching 85.2 F1 on ProcessBench with 3.2K outcome-labeled trajectories.

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