Dev builds reward-shaping visualizer to compare how reward maps affect GRPO, PPO and TailRL learning
k7agar · x · 2026-09-19
A developer experimenting with reward shaping built a small visualizer that shows how different reward maps change learning across RL algorithms including GRPO, PPO, and TailRL, making the effect of reward design easier to inspect.
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