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KV-PRM paper introduces efficient reward modeling for multi-agent LLMs

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Researchers have introduced KV-PRM, a novel method for improving the efficiency of Process Reward Models (PRMs) used in multi-agent systems. Unlike existing text-based PRMs that re-encode entire trajectories, KV-PRM directly utilizes the KV cache generated during LLM inference. This approach significantly reduces computational costs from O(L^2) to O(L), making it more suitable for long-context scenarios. Empirical results on benchmarks like MATH, GSM8K, and AIME demonstrate that KV-PRM matches or surpasses text-PRMs in performance while offering substantial reductions in FLOPs, latency, and memory footprint. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Dong Bok Lee, Seanie Lee, Sangwoo Park, Minki Kang, Jinheon Baek, Dongki Kim, Dominik Wagner, Jiongdao Jin, Heejun Lee, Tobias Bocklet, Jinyu Wang, Jingjing Fu, Sung Ju Hwang, Jiang Bian, Lei Song ·

    Rethinking Reward Models for Multi-Domain Test-Time Scaling

    arXiv:2510.00492v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reliability of large language models (LLMs) during test-time scaling is often assessed with \emph{external verifiers} or \emph{reward models} that distinguish correct reasoning from flawed logic. Prior work has studied both …

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Peng Kuang, Haibo Jin, Xiaoyu Han, Yanli Wang, Xiaopeng Yuan, Ye Yu, Kaidi Xu, Haohan Wang ·

    KV-PRM: Efficient Process Reward Modeling via KV-Cache Transfer for Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling

    arXiv:2607.09153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) have been proven to be highly effective in guiding test-time scaling (TTS) methods, which significantly boost the capabilities of LLM-based multi-agent systems. However, existing PRMs are text-based: the…

  3. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Haohan Wang ·

    KV-PRM: Efficient Process Reward Modeling via KV-Cache Transfer for Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling

    Process Reward Models (PRMs) have been proven to be highly effective in guiding test-time scaling (TTS) methods, which significantly boost the capabilities of LLM-based multi-agent systems. However, existing PRMs are text-based: they re-encode the entire trajectory text from scra…

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