Baselabs Digs Into RL's Resurging Compute Question: Learn a Value Function or Spend on More Rollouts?
baseten · x · 2026-10-31
Baselabs' Rollout newsletter revisits a resurging question in RL training: is it computationally worth it to learn a value function, or is it better to spend that compute on more rollouts? A core trade-off between value-function methods (PPO-style) and rollout-heavy approaches.
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