
Jonathan GordonResearcher
OpenAI
Research Scientist
via OpenAI
Researcher
Lightman helped make process supervision practical for mathematical reasoning: instead of judging only a final answer, a model learns from feedback on each reasoning step. His work produced the PRM800K dataset and informed OpenAI's broader effort to make advanced reasoning models more reliable.
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