Paper: The Real Goal of LLM RL is Monotonic Inference Policies
_akhaliq · x · 2026-07-07
The paper "The Mirage of Optimizing Training Policies," shared by akhaliq, suggests that in LLM reinforcement learning, the true optimization target should be the "monotonic inference policy" rather than the training policy itself.
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