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Judge, Jury, and Chain‑of‑Thought: Making Models StepWiser

TL;DR for operators StepWiser is a judge for multi-step reasoning systems. Its practical claim is simple: do not wait until the final answer is wrong before discovering that the model fell off a cliff three paragraphs earlier. The paper turns process supervision into a three-part mechanism. First, the solver is taught to divide its reasoning into coherent “chunks-of-thought” rather than arbitrary line breaks. Second, each chunk is labelled by estimating whether continuing after that chunk improves or harms the probability of eventually reaching a correct answer. Third, a separate judge is trained with online reinforcement learning to reason about each chunk before deciding whether it is valid.1 ...

August 27, 2025 · 18 min · Zelina
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Proofs and Consequences: How Math Reveals What AI Still Doesn’t Know

TL;DR for operators Mathematical proof is a nasty evaluation setting for AI systems because it leaves fewer hiding places. A model cannot merely land on a final number; it has to preserve the truth of each step. That is precisely why Guo et al.’s RFMDataset is useful: it tests whether advanced reasoning models can construct complete natural-language proofs, then classifies how they fail when they cannot.1 ...

June 23, 2025 · 18 min · Zelina