Researchers argue the harness, not the transformer, should generalize through composition
eliebakouch · x · 2026-07-22
A short reply celebrating a research idea: transformers struggle to generalize to unseen tasks, so the proposed direction is for the harness itself to generalize through composition.
The post also points to an observed property in RLM training: for tasks with shared structure that look different on the surface, the root model can learn the same trajectory, effectively treating the two task traces as equivalent.
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