Yoav Goldberg guesses RLCD is just verified rewards plus execution feedback, no secret sauce
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-23
In a thread with @imaurer and @vboykis, researcher Yoav Goldberg speculates that RLCD is likely just a combination of verified rewards and execution feedback (or cross-entropy when returning probabilistic outputs), questioning whether it contains any additional elements or secret sauce. He also argues that non-reasoning, non-conversational LLMs are a genuine product category in their own right, related to but separate from the Jev phenomenon.
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