Researchers Question Pedagogical RL's Student-Likelihood Proxy

Researchers raised concerns about pedagogical RL, arguing that student-likelihood may be a flawed proxy for learnability and that over-optimizing it could make models conservative and filter out genuinely useful low-probability reasoning steps.

2026-09-29 ~ 2026-09-29 · 2 related posts

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