OPAL in action: agent resets momentum and rolls back after overshooting
vincesitzmann · x · 2026-10-22
From the OPAL thread: a demo of the reactive optimizer in action — the agent notices a training step overshot the minimum, resets the momentum, and rolls back a few steps while continuing to monitor. One concrete example of having an agent watch the run full-time and intervene on the fly.
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