Pure RL is wasteful unless you're at the absolute frontier, argues Papailiopoulos
ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-10-08
Dimitris Papailiopoulos argues that pure RL seems highly wasteful, going so far as to say RL is generally wasteful unless you're at the absolute frontier with no good supervision available.
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