'When the tokens are a little too far off-policy': RL training chaos as a meme
willcb · x · 2026-10-21
willcb posts "when the tokens are a little too far off-policy" alongside the classic "math lady" confusion meme — the four-panel image of a woman baffled by geometry formulas, quadratic equations and trig tables.
The joke maps that panicked facial expression onto a model whose sampled tokens drift off the policy distribution during RL training — a knowing chuckle for RL practitioners.
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