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Cliff: Learning Process Rewards from the First Mistake

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for large language model (LLM) post-training, but its reliance on coarse outcome rewards leads to limited guidance on intermediate reasoning processes. Existing approaches such as process reward modeling and on-policy distillation introduce additional constraints, such as reliance on a specialized reward model or assuming identical reasoning patterns between teacher and student. Nevertheless, we observe that once a reasoning process first goes wrong, evaluating the subsequent reasoning provides limited add

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