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ScalePRM trains AI reward models without ground truth, outperforming GPT-4o

Researchers have developed ScalePRM, a novel method for training process reward models (PRMs) that bypasses the need for expensive step-level correctness labels or ground-truth answers. This approach scales verification compute by generating and aggregating multiple independent verifications of each reasoning step to create synthetic labels. ScalePRM achieved a 67.5 F1 score on the ProcessBench benchmark, outperforming traditional ground-truth-based training and even GPT-4o as a critic. When used as a reward signal for RL training with Qwen2.5-Math-7B, it improved average accuracy across six mathematical reasoning benchmarks to 47.4%, surpassing ground-truth-based RLVR. AI

IMPACT This method could significantly reduce the cost and complexity of training AI models that require step-by-step reasoning, potentially accelerating progress in areas like mathematical problem-solving.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Salman Rahman, Sruthi Gorantla, Arpit Gupta, Swastik Roy, Nanyun Peng, Yang Liu ·

    ScalePRM: Training Process Reward Models by Scaling Verification Compute Without Ground Truth

    arXiv:2512.03244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training process reward models (PRMs) requires step-level correctness labels, obtained either through expensive human annotation or by relying on ground-truth answers, limiting the ability to scale process-level supervisio…