arxivcs.AI2026-06-28
Process Advantage Signal Shaping: A Paradigm-Agnostic Middleware for Process-Supervised RL in LLM Reasoners
Chao Wang, Hongtao Tian, Tao Yang, Yunsheng Shi, Ting Yao, Wenbo Ding
Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is a default recipe for process-supervised reinforcement learning of LLM reasoners, and dense process supervision -- via learned process reward models (PRMs) or on-policy-distillation KL signals -- is a common way to densify its otherwise…