Online RL: Benefits and the Brink of Catastrophic Failure
breadli428 · x · 2026-07-07
The author points out that the advantages of online RL only emerge when there are significant shifts in dynamics, which is highly difficult to navigate: if the gap is too small, no visual improvement is noticeable; if it's too large, it can trigger a catastrophic failure from which the model cannot recover.
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