SPADEX: A self-play RL framework where LLMs generate their own training environments
_AndrewZhao · x · 2026-08-21
SPADEX is a self-play RL framework where one LLM generates executable Python environments and learns to solve them, keeping the curriculum at its own capability frontier.
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