Researcher Argues RL Falls Short on Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Robotics researcher Chris Paxton argues that recent AI progress driven by reinforcement learning cannot achieve true out-of-distribution generalization, since RL depends on environments that can be well simulated, leaving unsimulatable tasks as a persistent weakness.

2026-09-04 ~ 2026-09-04 · 2 related posts

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