A closer look at whether safe reasoning training can avoid RL pathologies
xuanalogue · x · 2026-07-22
The author follows up on the earlier reasoning-training discussion with a more detailed take on why the problem may be fixable.
- The post says the earlier comment is appreciated for adding details, especially around long-horizon instruction following and user-constraint weaknesses.
- At the same time, it argues that the reply still does not say much about RL training incentives.
- Overall, it continues the debate about whether safe reasoning can be trained with alternative SFT-style pipelines.
This is still a hypothesis-driven research discussion rather than a concrete result.
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