kalomaze: Information asymmetry, not verifiability, is the general primitive behind RLVR gains
kalomaze · x · 2026-09-12
kalomaze pushes back on the common intuition that "spiky capabilities are a function of how verifiable a domain is" — i.e., that domains not shaped like math or SWE won't fall to RLVR. He argues the general primitive is information asymmetry, which can almost always be manufactured, so non-verifier-shaped domains may benefit from RLVR too.
He also notes two standing issues in the field:
- The field is still bad at predicting how constructions transfer, so people settle for broad coverage of verifier-shaped real tasks.
- Typical transfer-prediction heuristics (like domain similarity) are crude and usually not learned end-to-end.
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