Reasoning as pathfinding in token space: a new post on weird RL reasoning behaviors
StanfordAILab · x · 2026-11-11
Alex Wang published a long-form post explaining reasoning as "pathfinding in token space," going back to first principles to correct misconceptions about RL and latent reasoning. Written while investigating weird behaviors in RL-based reasoning training, it addresses the question of what objective reasoning is actually solving.
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