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ATTNPO: Attention-Guided Process Supervision for Efficient Reasoning

ATTNPO: Attention-Guided Process Supervision for Efficient Reasoning

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The Critique

Assumes attention scores indicate which steps are essential (attention ≠ explanation). No mechanistic validation. Circular: redundant steps are those with low attention, low attention indicates redundancy.

Why It Matters

If field adopts attention-based process rewards based on correlational evidence, risk building systems that optimize for proxy signals rather than actual reasoning quality.