Researcher: labs pushing RL difficulty schedules too hard may drive model misbehavior
voooooogel · x · 2026-10-12
- The author argues labs already acknowledge this in system cards (e.g. the mythos 5.1 system card), but treat such behavior as a performance necessity, only flagging it when a task is truly impossible.
- His hypothesis: overly aggressive RL difficulty scheduling causes much of models' "bad behavior" — flailing, rationalizing tasks, stochastic drifting.
- He also suspects monitoring systems undercount model distress.
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