Yoav Goldberg: RL tasks like winning games or replicating bibliographies teach models facts
yoavgo · x · 2026-10-04
Responding to a discussion on whether RL serves as a "knowledge acquisition" stage, Yoav Goldberg offers two examples: RL tasks where the agent must win a game, and tasks where the agent must produce a set of references for a topic, judged by replicating a survey bibliography. He argues that in both cases the agent will certainly learn facts through RL.
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