Wayve researcher: robotics unlikely to find objectives far beyond next-token prediction
m_wulfmeier · x · 2026-09-15
Amid recent discussion on better training objectives, mwulfmeier argues from a robotics data-efficiency angle that nothing convincingly better than next-token likelihood has emerged: multi-token prediction, offline RL, and inverse RL are all weighted variants of predicting future tokens, and no alternative is both computationally cheap and robust at scale.
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