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New LCA Framework Enhances LLM Reasoning via Learnable Credit Assignment

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Researchers have introduced a new framework called Learnable Credit Assignment (LCA) to improve the training of outcome-supervised Process Reward Models (PRMs). These PRMs are designed to enhance the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing detailed feedback. LCA addresses the challenge of credit assignment in PRMs, which traditionally struggle to attribute final outcomes to specific reasoning steps when only the correctness of the final answer is known. The proposed method formalizes this as a Multiple Instance Learning problem and utilizes a novel Softmax-Weighted-Sum pooling technique, demonstrating superior performance over existing methods in experiments. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Lingyin Zhang, Jun Gao, Xiaoxue Ren, Ziqiang Cao ·

    The Bidirectional Process Reward Model

    arXiv:2508.01682v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs), which assign fine-grained scores to intermediate reasoning steps within a solution trajectory, have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the reasoning quality of Large Language Models (LLMs). …

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Tianyu Jia, Yue Fang, Hongxin Ding, Rihong Qiu, Zhibang Yang, Zhijing Wu, Xu Chu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang ·

    The Weakest Link Tells It All: Outcome-Supervised Process Reward Modeling via Learnable Credit Assignment

    arXiv:2606.27739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process reward models (PRMs) enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing fine-grained feedback, yet training PRMs typically requires expensive stepwise annotations. Outcome-supervised PRMs offer a…

  3. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yasha Wang ·

    The Weakest Link Tells It All: Outcome-Supervised Process Reward Modeling via Learnable Credit Assignment

    Process reward models (PRMs) enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing fine-grained feedback, yet training PRMs typically requires expensive stepwise annotations. Outcome-supervised PRMs offer a scalable alternative by learning from final-ans…

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