| Challenge: | Existing process verification methods struggle with reliably assessing incomplete reasoning traces and are limited by the cost of high-quality human annotations or the inherent noise in automatically generated labels. |
| Approach: | They propose a dynamic process verifier that integrates fast and slow thinking to enhance reasoning error detection in large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system outperforms existing process-based verifiers and maintains computational efficiency while maintaining high performance. |
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