RLM research suggests harness enables compositional generalization

a1zhang · x · 2026-08-25

A livestream preview cites Alex Zhang's work on RLMs, proposing that while Transformers struggle with implicit compositional generalization, a well-designed 'harness' can induce it. The harness creates a quotient set over task trajectories, allowing the base model to treat structurally similar tasks identically without extra training.

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