Confusions Around R1-RL and Intermediate Tokens

rao2z · x · 2026-07-15

This highlights The many confusions about R1-RL and Intermediate Tokens, pointing out the widespread misunderstandings surrounding them.

In context, the author aims to clarify that intermediate representations during reasoning, output length, and actual reasoning mechanisms should not be blindly conflated.

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