Vector Institute at ICML 2026: Can RL Teach AI New Reasoning?
VectorInst · x · 2026-07-08
Multiple researchers from the Vector Institute tackled a core question at ICML 2026 in Seoul this week: does reinforcement learning actually enable AI to acquire new reasoning skills, or does it merely "mine" the existing knowledge of base models? The post also shares related research threads.
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