A toy example of why RL fine-tuning concentrates mass on max-reward tokens
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-12
jessicata offers a simple toy example of RL fine-tuning's fixed point: sample a model's next-token distribution 1000 times, score tokens by some f(token) in [0,1], keep samples with probability f(token), then fine-tune the model toward the remainder. Iterating this drives nearly all probability mass onto tokens with maximum f — the reward-maxing fixed point.
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