Tag: Reinforcement Learning
All the articles with the tag "Reinforcement Learning".
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Training the Critic Without Crashing the Reward: A Practical Guide to Agentic RL
· 20 min readA practical framework for critic training and credit assignment in long-horizon LLM agents: IQL, pairwise advantage, hindsight and counterfactual critics, privileged information, turn-level MDPs, chain-of-thought monitoring, and reward-crash diagnosis.
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From GRPO Outcome Rewards to Token-Level Advantage
· 20 min readA practical framework for turning GRPO-style sequence rewards into token-level advantages, including GAE-style estimators, credit assignment routes, and multi-reward training design.
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Scaling RL for White-Collar Work: The Environment Foundry
· 20 min readA practical framework for turning common white-collar workflows into RL environments: spreadsheets, CRM tasks, customer support, web research, dashboards, and other software-mediated work.
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The Unverifiable Reward Problem: The Real Frontier of RL for LLMs
· 12 min readDeep research on tasks with unverifiable rewards in RL — the key bottleneck for scaling RL beyond math and code. Covers JEPO, NRT, RLNVR, self-play methods, GenRM, Constitutional AI, reward hacking mitigation, and more.