Other people with similar names: Yang Janet Liu (Georgetown University; 刘洋), Yang Liu, Yang Liu (Fudan), Yang Liu (BIGAI), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (Hunan), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (3M Health Information Systems), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (UC Santa Cruz), Yang Liu (South China University of Technology), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (NTU), Yang Liu (Sun Yat-sen University), Yang Liu, Yang Liu (North Carolina Central University), Yang Liu, Yang Liu (Beijing Language and Culture University), Yang Liu (National University of Defense Technology), Yang Liu (Edinburgh Ph.D., Microsoft), Yang Liu (University of Helsinki), Yang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)), Yang Liu (刘扬) (刘扬; Ph.D Purdue; ICSI, Dallas, Facebook, Liulishuo, Amazon), Yang Liu (刘洋) (刘洋; ICT, Tsinghua, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence), Yang Liu (Microsoft Cognitive Services Research), Yang Liu (刘扬) (Peking University), Yang Liu (Samsung Research Center Beijing), Yang Liu (Tianjin University, China), Yang Liu (Univ. of Michigan, UC Santa Cruz), Yang Liu (Wilfrid Laurier University)

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2026

Training process reward models (PRMs) requires step-level correctness labels, obtained either through expensive human annotation or by relying on ground-truth answers, limiting the ability to scale process-level supervision. We propose ScalePRM, which scales verification compute as an alternative: given a problem and a candidate solution, we generate multiple independent verifications of each reasoning step and aggregate their judgments to produce synthetic step-level labels without ground truth. We explore two representative inference-time scaling strategies, parallel scaling through self-consistency and sequential scaling through meta-critique, and train generative PRMs on the resulting synthetic data. On ProcessBench, a benchmark for identifying erroneous steps in mathematical reasoning, PRMs trained on step-level self-consistency data achieve 67.5 F1, surpassing reference-guided training with ground-truth access (66.4 F1) and GPT-4o as a critic (61.9 F1). When deployed as reward signals in RL training with Qwen2.5-Math-7B, our best PRM achieves 47.4% average accuracy across six mathematical reasoning benchmarks, outperforming ground-truth-based RLVR (43.9%). We also identify and address reward exploitation patterns unique to generative PRM-based RL. Our results demonstrate that scaling verification compute is a viable alternative to ground-truth supervision for training process reward models.