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![WenSun1 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::824609918.png) Wen Sun [@WenSun1](/creator/twitter/WenSun1) on x XXX followers
Created: 2025-07-18 03:06:27 UTC

How can small LLMs match or even surpass frontier models like DeepSeek R1 and o3 Mini in math competition (AIME & HMMT) reasoning? Prior work seems to suggest that ideas like PRMs do not really work or scale well for long context reasoning.  @kaiwenw_ai will reveal how a novel value model (not the usual PRMs!) can be trained to enable massive search at inference time.


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