RL Prompting Guide: Instructions and Reward Must Match
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-08-24
A key rule for prompting in Reinforcement Learning: instructions and reward must match. Any contradiction teaches the model to ignore the prompt and follow the reward signal, leading to anti-instruction following behavior.
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