RLSlow team credited with inventing RL at scale for LLMs
morqon · x · 2026-09-07
Former OpenAI researcher Łukasz Kaiser paid tribute to the RLSlow team, which he led after Ilya Sutskever and later merettm. unsafePerformIO adds that the now-widespread approach of doing RL at scale with LLMs was first developed there — and was just one special case of a family of learning algorithms the team studied. Members included Trapit Bansal, Francis Song, and Suchir Balaji.
Related event: Ex-OpenAI researcher Kaiser reflects on the RLSlow team's journey(3 posts)→
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