Let's Verify Step by Step
Reward every correct step, not just the answer — process supervision trains the stronger verifier.
Lightman et al. · ICLR 2024 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗
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- What is Let's Verify Step by Step?
- Reward every correct step, not just the answer — process supervision trains the stronger verifier.
- Who published Let's Verify Step by Step, and where?
- Lightman et al. — ICLR 2024 (arXiv:2305.20050).
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