Research Reveals RL Matthew Effect; NGU Sampling Targets Hard Problems
New research from Allen AI reveals a 'Matthew effect' in RL training of LLMs, where gains concentrate on easy problems. The team proposes adaptive 'Never Give Up' sampling to reallocate compute toward hard problems.
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