LLM RL Not Generalizing? Researcher Points to Wrong KL Optimization
cjmaddison · x · 2026-07-30
In response to the view that reinforcement learning (RL) for LLMs isn't generalizing as expected by labs, a researcher pointed out that this phenomenon might be due to optimizing KL divergence the wrong way round.
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