RL methods are a mess too — and that didn't stop the field from succeeding, argues aryaman

aryaman2020 · x · 2026-09-07

Responding to criticism that interpretability is 'a broadly confused mass of techniques,' aryaman notes current successful RL looks nothing like pre-o1 RL theory, yet the field clearly progressed from o1 to o3 — arguing that messy methods in an empirical, actively developed science say little about whether the field succeeds.

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