Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision

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OpenAI demonstrates process supervision (rewarding each reasoning step) achieves SOTA math performance and improves alignment by producing human-endorsed chains of thought.

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We've trained a model to achieve a new state-of-the-art in mathematical problem solving by rewarding each correct step of reasoning (“process supervision”) instead of simply rewarding the correct final answer (“outcome supervision”). In addition to boosting performance relative to outcome supervision, process supervision also has an important alignment benefit: it directly trains the model to produce a chain-of-thought that is endorsed by humans.