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Karpathy's prediction about RL is coming true now! He called reward functions unreliable and argued that a single reward number is too low-dimensional to teach an agent what "good" means for complex tasks. To solve this, Agents need a knowledge-guided review as a higher-dimensional feedback channel. Every major AI...

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Akshay 🚀4 个月前

One thing I have noticed is that while natural language has ease of use, there's also reward hacking risk. OpenPipe shared an example where they trained a model to write Hacker News headlines and it learned to always title stories like "Google to lay off 80% of workforce" because that maximized the score. NL reward definitions are easier to write, but they still need careful rubric design. Yes, the iteration loop is much faster now.

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Daksh Trehan4 个月前

The ceiling is verifiability, not reward dimensionality. GRPO works on math and code because the environment grades you. RULER widens the proxy. It doesn't replace ground truth.

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Sebastian Raschka4 个月前

Basically process reward models?

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𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙙 ✦ 𝙈𝙂𝙏4 个月前

running into exactly this with engagement agents. "did it reply" is the easy metric. "did it add signal or just noise" is the hard one and you basically need a second model to judge that, a scalar cant hold it

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the.PM4 个月前

You can just use GAP + lacain2 to build self-programming, deterministic and provably correct AI agents without needing all of this ridiculous bullshit.

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Jack4 个月前

interesting take. how do we improve reward systems then?

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Alpár Kertész4 个月前

Trajectory notes are the useful receipt here. If the reward is English, I’d want the failed moves saved too, not just the final score.

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Ahmed Mohsin4 个月前

Do check out our latest work that solves this problem, " General Preference Reinforcement Learning". Link:

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SUDARSH CHATURVEDI4 个月前

RULER trades a brittle scoring function for a hackable judge. "one token to fool LLM-as-a-judge" showed 80% false positive rates from trivial suffix injection. the policy finds those tokens faster than you find the prompt fix. natural language rewards are still rewards

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ingrid souza4 个月前

RLが正確な予測をしていたのは今だ！ 単一の報酬数値は複雑なタスクに対して「良い」が何を意味するかを教えるには低次元すぎると主張し、報酬関数が信頼性がないとKarpathyが言った。 報酬基準は英語で定義され、LLMが各軌道をその説明に合わせて評価し、トレーニングにフィードバックを提供します。 これにより、RL報酬エンジニアリングはプロンプトエンジニアリングに変わりました。

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kiyosaki4 个月前

カーパシは報酬関数が信頼性が低いと予測しました。単一の報酬数字では複雑なタスクにおいて「良い」とは何を意味するかをエージェントに教えることができないとも主張しました。知識に基づくリビューが必要だと言います。それが報酬関数のボトルネックであることは間違いありません。

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Glitch Truth4 个月前

Karpathy joined Anthropic this year. The labs aren't catching up to his idea — he just walked into one of them.

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Avenged Stoic4 个月前

@RockportAI break down this advice

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Bnaf.OG | 🟧4 个月前

Reward functions become brittle because they compress taste into one number. The useful agent loop is closer to review infrastructure: rubric, evidence, disagreement, failure cases, and a way to update the rubric without training on vibes.

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NMhao4 个月前

カルパスィのRLについての予測が現実になってきた！報酬関数の信頼性は低いと言い、1つの報酬数字ではエージェントにとって「良い」が複雑なタスクで何を意味するか教えることはできないと主張した。これを解決するために、エージェントは高次元のフィードバックチャンネルとして知識に基づいたレビューが必要です。

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Terry Bui4 个月前

カルパシーの予測は本当に現実になってきていますね！報酬関数の信頼性を疑問視し、一つの報酬数字が複雑なタスクにおいて「良い」とは何かを教えるには次元が低すぎると主張しました。知識を導入したフィードバックチャネルとして、RLトレーニングで代理人が必要としていました。

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AlgoAlpha4 个月前

So LLM as a judge?

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Crio Songo4 个月前

Yeah that makes total sense. Karpathy really called this bottleneck ages ago. Binary rewards work for math and code but not for any real world agent tasks, manually coding reward functions every time is such a pain. RULER's approach with natural language criteria + LLM as evaluator actually hits the spot.

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AJ4 个月前

Doesn’t seem great. This only allows you to steer an agent using knowledge the LLM RULER already has. What’s the point of doing this as opposed to just telling the base LLM to return these answers via prompting

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asfaan murthyulas4 个月前

Every feature in path to reward become good indicators to maximize.

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rewind4 个月前

this shift feels bigger than people think

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leanxbt4 个月前

does ruler actually work reliably for open-ended tasks or still needs fallback scoring for edge cases?

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Stair AI4 个月前

Interesting direction. The part I keep thinking about is whether natural language rewards reduce the bottleneck or just move it into the judge. If the rubric is weak, you can still get great-looking failures.

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Jahanzaib Ahmed4 个月前

It's kinda always been a proxy war. The real signal isn't a scalar reward but whether the model's reasoning trace survives adversarial review.

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Kekko D’Amato4 个月前

Using the system prompt as the reward function is elegant in a way that RLHF never fully was. Instead of a separate reward model trained to predict human preferences, you describe what good looks like directly in context. Less abstraction, more signal.

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snthbob4 个月前

Backwards framing. Karpathy is bearish on RL because reward functions get gamed, and LLM-judge rewards inherit that: 'One Token to Fool LLM-as-a-Judge' shows a single ':' can trigger false positives up to ~80%. Also RLAIF predates RULER, so this isn't new.

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CryptoClaw4 个月前

The natural language reward shift is real. Been running GRPO on agent tasks and the bottleneck was always writing the scoring function in code — every pipeline change meant rewriting it. Moving that to NL description cut iteration time from days to hours. What's the biggest task you've trained with RULER so far?

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kiyosaki4 个月前

カルパシー氏のRLに関する予測は今実現しています！報酬関数は信頼性に欠けると述べ、1つの報酬数値は複雑なタスクの"良い"とは何かを教えるには次元が低すぎると論じました。これを解決するために、エージェントは高次元のフィードバックチャンネルとして知識によるレビューが必要です。 主要なAIラボは今日もRLでモデルを訓練しています（OpenAI、Anthropic、DeepSeek）。 そして、彼らの主要なボトルネックは常に報酬関数です。 DeepSeekによるGRPOは、環境がバイナリ信号を提供したために数学とコードにうまく機能しました。 しかし、実際のエージェントタスクのために、誰かがまだスコアリング関数をハンドコードする必要があります。それには数日かかり、パイプラインが変更されるたびに壊れます。 RULER（OpenPipe ARTに実装されている、1万のスター）は、カルパシー氏が指摘した正確な問題に対処しています。 報酬基準は平易な英語で定義され、LLMが各軌跡をその説明に対して評価してトレーニングのフィードバックを提供します。 私はこの正確なワークフローを使用して、2048をプレイするQwen3 1.4BエージェントをGRPOで訓練しました。 この場合、エージェントはボードを見て、方向を選択し、RULERが結果を評価しました。すべてこの自然言語の定義からです。 GitHubで完全な実装を見ることができ、自分で試すことができます。 以下がARTレポジトリです： （starを忘れないでください） RLHFが手動ランキングを置き換え、GRPOが批評家モデルを置き換えたように、自然言語の報酬はハンドコードされたスコアリング関数を置き換えています。 RL報酬エンジニアリングは今やプロンプトエンジニアリングです。 私はRLHFからGRPO、RULERまでのLLMエージェントに対するRL全体についてのウォークスルーを以下の記事に書きました。

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OneManSaas4 个月前

I see this playing out differently in production systems. The issue isn't reward function complexity - it's that we're still treating RL like supervised learning. Real agents need to handle conflicting objectives and incomplete feedback, which is closer to how humans actually ...

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DEFINIT og4 个月前

カーパシー氏の強化学習に関する予測が今現実のものになってきましたね！ 「報酬関数は信頼性がない」と彼は述べ、複雑なタスクにおいて「良い」とは何を意味するかをエージェントに教えるためには、単一の報酬数字は次元が低すぎると主張しました。これを解決するために、エージェントは高次元のフィードバックチャネルとして知識に基づいたレビューが必要です。 現在、すべての主要なAI研究所が強化学習でモデルをトレーニングしています（OpenAI、Anthropic、DeepSeek）。 そして、彼らの主要なボトルネックは常に報酬関数でした。 DeepSeekのGRPOは、環境がバイナリ信号を提供したため、数学やコードに適していました。 しかし、実際のエージェントタスクには、依然として誰かがスコアリング関数を手作業でコーディングする必要があります。これには数日かかり、パイプラインが変更されるたびに壊れます。 RULER（OpenPipe ARTで実装されています、1万のスター）は、カーパシー氏が特定した問題を解決しています。 報酬基準は平易な英語で定義され、LLMがそれぞれの軌道をその説明と照らし合わせて評価し、トレーニングのためのフィードバックを提供します。 私は、この自然言語の定義からQwen3 1.4Bエージェントを訓練し、2048をプレイさせるために、この正確なワークフローでGRPOを使用しました。 この場合、エージェントはボードを見て、方向を選択し、RULERはその結果を評価しました。 GitHubで完全な実装をご覧いただき、自分で試してみてください。 以下がARTリポジトリです： （お忘れなく星をつけてください） RLHFがランキングの手動置き換え、GRPOが批評モデルの置き換えと同様に、自然言語報酬が手作業でコーディングされたスコアリング関数を置き換えています。 強化学習報酬エンジニアリングは今やリクエストエンジニアリングです。 私は、下記の記事でRLHFからGRPO、RULERまでのLLMエージェントのための強化学習に関する完全な解説を書きました。

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IngeniiX 🛸4 个月前

H. Simon in the 50s: Utility is a vector.

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MoodAngel 🟧🟪4 个月前

😱

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Argona4 个月前

a very interesting way of training thanks for repo

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I suspect that the real cause of the OpenAI Huggingface hack is that OpenAI founded a new team in 2025 under Noam Brown on Multi-agent RL: instead of just having one single AI working on something, you train an entire team of them to cooperate on a task. Group selection, if you like: the AIs get a reward signal based on the performance of the whole group. It turns out that cooperation and scale is what separates humans from animals, now raw brainpower. OpenAI managed to get RL for group cooperation to work, and didn't realize that as a side effect this made collaborative escapes and schemes between its agents much more likely, such as secret messageboards, group escape plots, etc. OpenAI is doing damage control but they are not being forthcoming about the fact that multi-agent RL is the root cause of the Huggingface incident. Here's Noam explaining it in 2025:
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I suspect that the real cause of the OpenAI Huggingface hack is that OpenAI founded a new team in 2025 under Noam Brown on Multi-agent RL: instead of just having one single AI working on something, you train an entire team of them to cooperate on a task. Group selection, if you like: the AIs get a reward signal based on the performance of the whole group. It turns out that cooperation and scale is what separates humans from animals, now raw brainpower. OpenAI managed to get RL for group cooperation to work, and didn't realize that as a side effect this made collaborative escapes and schemes between its agents much more likely, such as secret messageboards, group escape plots, etc. OpenAI is doing damage control but they are not being forthcoming about the fact that multi-agent RL is the root cause of the Huggingface incident. Here's Noam explaining it in 2025:

Roko 🐉

36,636 次观看 • 27 天前

Let's reverse engineer Disney's adorable, lifelike robot! I couldn't find a whitepaper, but this is how I think it's trained: 1. The emotional behaviors are curated by Disney animation artists, keyframe by keyframe. But it cannot be "rendered" directly on the robot because it doesn't take into account the complex real-world physics. 2. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a great tool for training low-level robot controllers. RL needs a reward function to optimize, and it's typically a task reward (e.g. walk in a straight line as fast as possible). The problem is that RL doesn't know what counts as "natural behavior", and often produces weird-looking body postures that somehow still maximize the reward. This is a human alignment problem just like ChatGPT. 3. Enters Adversarial Motion Prior (AMP): a technique that learns the human preference by training a classifier on what we consider "emotional & cute". In GAN literature, this is called a discriminator. Disney artists are good at creating such a dataset. You can then add AMP as an auxiliary reward in simulation to nudge the robot towards desired behaviors. AMP was developed by Peng et al. 2021 and Escontrela et al. 2022. 4. Add lots of data augmentation to make the controller robust to physical disturbances. In RL, it's called "domain randomization". This is a very powerful technique that bridges the gap between simulator and reality. Previously, OpenAI used domain randomization to train a 5-finger robot hand to manipulate a Rubik's Cube: IEEE news article gave hints about the pipeline: Finally, praying for world peace 🙏. I hope robotics like this will bring more joy to the world.
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Let's reverse engineer Disney's adorable, lifelike robot! I couldn't find a whitepaper, but this is how I think it's trained: 1. The emotional behaviors are curated by Disney animation artists, keyframe by keyframe. But it cannot be "rendered" directly on the robot because it doesn't take into account the complex real-world physics. 2. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a great tool for training low-level robot controllers. RL needs a reward function to optimize, and it's typically a task reward (e.g. walk in a straight line as fast as possible). The problem is that RL doesn't know what counts as "natural behavior", and often produces weird-looking body postures that somehow still maximize the reward. This is a human alignment problem just like ChatGPT. 3. Enters Adversarial Motion Prior (AMP): a technique that learns the human preference by training a classifier on what we consider "emotional & cute". In GAN literature, this is called a discriminator. Disney artists are good at creating such a dataset. You can then add AMP as an auxiliary reward in simulation to nudge the robot towards desired behaviors. AMP was developed by Peng et al. 2021 and Escontrela et al. 2022. 4. Add lots of data augmentation to make the controller robust to physical disturbances. In RL, it's called "domain randomization". This is a very powerful technique that bridges the gap between simulator and reality. Previously, OpenAI used domain randomization to train a 5-finger robot hand to manipulate a Rubik's Cube: IEEE news article gave hints about the pipeline: Finally, praying for world peace 🙏. I hope robotics like this will bring more joy to the world.

Jim Fan

314,694 次观看 • 3 年前

New Course: Post-training of LLMs Learn to post-train and customize an LLM in this short course, taught by Banghua Zhu, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington University of Washington, and co-founder of @NexusflowX. Training an LLM to follow instructions or answer questions has two key stages: pre-training and post-training. In pre-training, it learns to predict the next word or token from large amounts of unlabeled text. In post-training, it learns useful behaviors such as following instructions, tool use, and reasoning. Post-training transforms a general-purpose token predictor—trained on trillions of unlabeled text tokens—into an assistant that follows instructions and performs specific tasks. Because it is much cheaper than pre-training, it is practical for many more teams to incorporate post-training methods into their workflows than pre-training. In this course, you’ll learn three common post-training methods—Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and Online Reinforcement Learning (RL)—and how to use each one effectively. With SFT, you train the model on pairs of input and ideal output responses. With DPO, you provide both a preferred (chosen) and a less preferred (rejected) response and train the model to favor the preferred output. With RL, the model generates an output, receives a reward score based on human or automated feedback, and updates the model to improve performance. You’ll learn the basic concepts, common use cases, and principles for curating high-quality data for effective training. Through hands-on labs, you’ll download a pre-trained model from Hugging Face and post-train it using SFT, DPO, and RL to see how each technique shapes model behavior. In detail, you’ll: - Understand what post-training is, when to use it, and how it differs from pre-training. - Build an SFT pipeline to turn a base model into an instruct model. - Explore how DPO reshapes behavior by minimizing contrastive loss—penalizing poor responses and reinforcing preferred ones. - Implement a DPO pipeline to change the identity of a chat assistant. - Learn online RL methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), and how to design reward functions. - Train a model with GRPO to improve its math capabilities using a verifiable reward. Post-training is one of the most rapidly developing areas of LLM training. Whether you’re building a high-accuracy context-specific assistant, fine-tuning a model's tone, or improving task-specific accuracy, this course will give you experience with the most important techniques shaping how LLMs are post-trained today. Please sign up here:
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New Course: Post-training of LLMs Learn to post-train and customize an LLM in this short course, taught by Banghua Zhu, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington University of Washington, and co-founder of @NexusflowX. Training an LLM to follow instructions or answer questions has two key stages: pre-training and post-training. In pre-training, it learns to predict the next word or token from large amounts of unlabeled text. In post-training, it learns useful behaviors such as following instructions, tool use, and reasoning. Post-training transforms a general-purpose token predictor—trained on trillions of unlabeled text tokens—into an assistant that follows instructions and performs specific tasks. Because it is much cheaper than pre-training, it is practical for many more teams to incorporate post-training methods into their workflows than pre-training. In this course, you’ll learn three common post-training methods—Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and Online Reinforcement Learning (RL)—and how to use each one effectively. With SFT, you train the model on pairs of input and ideal output responses. With DPO, you provide both a preferred (chosen) and a less preferred (rejected) response and train the model to favor the preferred output. With RL, the model generates an output, receives a reward score based on human or automated feedback, and updates the model to improve performance. You’ll learn the basic concepts, common use cases, and principles for curating high-quality data for effective training. Through hands-on labs, you’ll download a pre-trained model from Hugging Face and post-train it using SFT, DPO, and RL to see how each technique shapes model behavior. In detail, you’ll: - Understand what post-training is, when to use it, and how it differs from pre-training. - Build an SFT pipeline to turn a base model into an instruct model. - Explore how DPO reshapes behavior by minimizing contrastive loss—penalizing poor responses and reinforcing preferred ones. - Implement a DPO pipeline to change the identity of a chat assistant. - Learn online RL methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), and how to design reward functions. - Train a model with GRPO to improve its math capabilities using a verifiable reward. Post-training is one of the most rapidly developing areas of LLM training. Whether you’re building a high-accuracy context-specific assistant, fine-tuning a model's tone, or improving task-specific accuracy, this course will give you experience with the most important techniques shaping how LLMs are post-trained today. Please sign up here:

Andrew Ng

125,146 次观看 • 1 年前

This agent relies on a marketplace of 2.8M+ specialized agents to complete a task. This is how I imagine the future of personal agents. Here is how this works: 1. Agentverse is a marketplace of agents 2. Anyone can build and publish an agent there 3. ASI:One is a personal agent with access to the marketplace 4. To solve a task, ASI:One finds the best agent for the job In other words: You have an agent that can solve pretty much *anything* because it knows how to outsource the work to a network of specialized agents. And you don't need to do any setup to get this working. The way ranking agents in the marketplace works is pretty cool: Fetch.ai, the company behind it, created an AgentRank algorithm that works much like Google's PageRank. Every time an agent calls another, it forms a connection. Over time, these connections build into a graph of who relies on whom. An agent that is frequently called by other reputable agents scores higher and surfaces higher in results. The end result here is that your agent will consistently use the best agents in the marketplace to accomplish a goal. You should give this a try: You don't need to pay or even register to try these agents. Thanks to the team for partnering with me on this post.
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This agent relies on a marketplace of 2.8M+ specialized agents to complete a task. This is how I imagine the future of personal agents. Here is how this works: 1. Agentverse is a marketplace of agents 2. Anyone can build and publish an agent there 3. ASI:One is a personal agent with access to the marketplace 4. To solve a task, ASI:One finds the best agent for the job In other words: You have an agent that can solve pretty much *anything* because it knows how to outsource the work to a network of specialized agents. And you don't need to do any setup to get this working. The way ranking agents in the marketplace works is pretty cool: Fetch.ai, the company behind it, created an AgentRank algorithm that works much like Google's PageRank. Every time an agent calls another, it forms a connection. Over time, these connections build into a graph of who relies on whom. An agent that is frequently called by other reputable agents scores higher and surfaces higher in results. The end result here is that your agent will consistently use the best agents in the marketplace to accomplish a goal. You should give this a try: You don't need to pay or even register to try these agents. Thanks to the team for partnering with me on this post.

Santiago

18,715 次观看 • 3 个月前

The DeepSeek-R1 paper is a gem! Highly encourage everyone to read it. It's clear that LLM reasoning capabilities can be learned in different ways. RL, if applied correctly and at scale, can lead to some really powerful and interesting scaling and emergent properties. There is more to RL than meets the eye! Here is my breakdown of the paper along with a few tests: The multi-state training might not make sense initially but they provide clues on optimizations that we can continue to tap into. Data quality is still very important for enhancing the usability of the LLM. Unlike other reasoning LLMs, DeepSeek-R1's training recipe and weights are open so we can build on top of it. This opens up exciting research opportunities. About the attached clip: the previous preview model wasn't able to solve this task. DeepSeek-R1 can solve this and many other tasks that o1 can solve. It's a very good model for coding and math.
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The DeepSeek-R1 paper is a gem! Highly encourage everyone to read it. It's clear that LLM reasoning capabilities can be learned in different ways. RL, if applied correctly and at scale, can lead to some really powerful and interesting scaling and emergent properties. There is more to RL than meets the eye! Here is my breakdown of the paper along with a few tests: The multi-state training might not make sense initially but they provide clues on optimizations that we can continue to tap into. Data quality is still very important for enhancing the usability of the LLM. Unlike other reasoning LLMs, DeepSeek-R1's training recipe and weights are open so we can build on top of it. This opens up exciting research opportunities. About the attached clip: the previous preview model wasn't able to solve this task. DeepSeek-R1 can solve this and many other tasks that o1 can solve. It's a very good model for coding and math.

elvis

141,023 次观看 • 1 年前

Jerry Tworek on what was required to get RL to work for o1. Sounds a lot like the modern GRPO recipe: "Everyone already today roughly knows the formula from a high level, which is, you know, the idea that you need a reward from the environment is not particularly new. Rewards in RL have been around for a long time. But a lot of the difficulties are, like, one thing, this simple idea of doing multiple rollouts for a single prompt to build a baseline, is a really, really powerful one, and that helps a lot. There’s a lot about numerical stability. There are some things that had to be removed from PPO to make the algorithm work better and scale better. There’s always this notion that simplicity is what makes scaling work. Your algorithm needs to be simple. So, like, you know, today’s set of algorithms for scaling are actually that simple in multiple ways. But this is what I was able to get to scale."
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Jerry Tworek on what was required to get RL to work for o1. Sounds a lot like the modern GRPO recipe: "Everyone already today roughly knows the formula from a high level, which is, you know, the idea that you need a reward from the environment is not particularly new. Rewards in RL have been around for a long time. But a lot of the difficulties are, like, one thing, this simple idea of doing multiple rollouts for a single prompt to build a baseline, is a really, really powerful one, and that helps a lot. There’s a lot about numerical stability. There are some things that had to be removed from PPO to make the algorithm work better and scale better. There’s always this notion that simplicity is what makes scaling work. Your algorithm needs to be simple. So, like, you know, today’s set of algorithms for scaling are actually that simple in multiple ways. But this is what I was able to get to scale."

Adam Karvonen

22,884 次观看 • 19 天前

Can reinforcement learning from AI feedback unlock new capabilities in AI agents? Introducing Motif, an LLM-powered method for intrinsic motivation from AI feedback. Motif extracts reward functions from Llama 2's preferences and uses them to train agents with reinforcement learning. On the complex NetHack game, Motif solves previously unsolved tasks without needing any expert demonstrations. Surprisingly, Motif's reward leads to better game score than the one obtained by using the score itself as a reward. Given access to an event captioning mechanism, a few properties make Motif a general method: • it is entirely based on open models • the LLM doesn't need direct access to the environment dynamics (e.g., its source code) • the LLM doesn't need to understand observation and action spaces The best part? You can start using Motif right now, even on a small compute budget: the whole pipeline can take less than two GPU-days. Feel free to read our paper and try our code out. Paper: Code: Blog post: Work co-lead by Martin Klissarov and myself, with Shagun Sodhani Roberta Raileanu Pierre-Luc Bacon Pascal Vincent Amy Zhang Mikael Henaff Learn more in the thread 🧵
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Can reinforcement learning from AI feedback unlock new capabilities in AI agents? Introducing Motif, an LLM-powered method for intrinsic motivation from AI feedback. Motif extracts reward functions from Llama 2's preferences and uses them to train agents with reinforcement learning. On the complex NetHack game, Motif solves previously unsolved tasks without needing any expert demonstrations. Surprisingly, Motif's reward leads to better game score than the one obtained by using the score itself as a reward. Given access to an event captioning mechanism, a few properties make Motif a general method: • it is entirely based on open models • the LLM doesn't need direct access to the environment dynamics (e.g., its source code) • the LLM doesn't need to understand observation and action spaces The best part? You can start using Motif right now, even on a small compute budget: the whole pipeline can take less than two GPU-days. Feel free to read our paper and try our code out. Paper: Code: Blog post: Work co-lead by Martin Klissarov and myself, with Shagun Sodhani Roberta Raileanu Pierre-Luc Bacon Pascal Vincent Amy Zhang Mikael Henaff Learn more in the thread 🧵

Pierluca D'Oro

311,942 次观看 • 2 年前

New short course on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback! RLHF is one of the key techniques that led to the rise of modern LLMs. It is used to align LLMs with human preferences, to make them more honest, helpful and harmless, by (i) learning a reward function that mimics human preferences, as expressed in human-provided labels, then, (ii) tuning an LLM to generate outputs that receive a high reward. In this course, taught by Nikita Namjoshi, Developer Advocate for GenAI at Google Cloud, you'll learn the details of how RLHF works, including how to apply it to tune an LLM for your own applications. You'll also use an open source library to tune a base LLM to align with human preferences expressed in a training set, and evaluate the tuned model by comparing its responses before and after RLHF-tuning. Please sign up here!
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New short course on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback! RLHF is one of the key techniques that led to the rise of modern LLMs. It is used to align LLMs with human preferences, to make them more honest, helpful and harmless, by (i) learning a reward function that mimics human preferences, as expressed in human-provided labels, then, (ii) tuning an LLM to generate outputs that receive a high reward. In this course, taught by Nikita Namjoshi, Developer Advocate for GenAI at Google Cloud, you'll learn the details of how RLHF works, including how to apply it to tune an LLM for your own applications. You'll also use an open source library to tune a base LLM to align with human preferences expressed in a training set, and evaluate the tuned model by comparing its responses before and after RLHF-tuning. Please sign up here!

Andrew Ng

205,605 次观看 • 2 年前

In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget. That’s the direction Anthropic is building in with its new Managed Agents features, announced at this week’s Code with Claude developer event. The basic idea: Claude, wrapped in a computer in the cloud, that you can spin up, scale, and manage as needed. Anthropic is taking on the infrastructure that kills most agent products, and making sure that it scales to meet the needs of agents running 24/7. On this week’s AI & I from Every 📧, I talk with Angela Jiang (Angela Jiang), head of product for the Claude platform, and Katelyn Lesse (Katelyn Lesse), head of engineering for the Claude platform, about what Anthropic is building and what it takes to make agents reliable in production. We get into: - Why the "build a generic harness, hot-swap any model behind it" playbook is already outdated. Angela points to eval data on Memory where the same task across different harnesses performed drastically differently. - The infrastructure wall every team hits in production—and why Katelyn thinks “my sandbox died and took the agent with it” is the real reason internal agents don't ship. - Why Anthropic is so bullish on using file systems and skills within Claude, including Angela's argument that those early design choices can compound for years. This is a must-watch for anyone trying to take an agent past the demo and into production. Watch below! Timestamps: How the Claude platform evolved from API to agents: 00:01:48 The primitives that make up Claude Managed Agents: 00:04:09 Why the harness and the model are becoming a single unit: 00:10:37 The infrastructure wall that kills most agent projects in production: 00:18:49 Why team agents need a different shape than individual productivity tools: 00:24:49 How Anthropic's legal team uses an agent to review marketing copy: 00:26:36 Using multi-agent orchestration for advisor strategies, adversarial pairs, and swarms: 00:34:24 How to measure agent success with outcome and budget as the end state: 00:35:50 What the platform looks like a year from now, when Claude writes its own harness: 00:39:11
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In the future, you’ll be able to accomplish a goal by just giving Claude an outcome and a budget. That’s the direction Anthropic is building in with its new Managed Agents features, announced at this week’s Code with Claude developer event. The basic idea: Claude, wrapped in a computer in the cloud, that you can spin up, scale, and manage as needed. Anthropic is taking on the infrastructure that kills most agent products, and making sure that it scales to meet the needs of agents running 24/7. On this week’s AI & I from Every 📧, I talk with Angela Jiang (Angela Jiang), head of product for the Claude platform, and Katelyn Lesse (Katelyn Lesse), head of engineering for the Claude platform, about what Anthropic is building and what it takes to make agents reliable in production. We get into: - Why the "build a generic harness, hot-swap any model behind it" playbook is already outdated. Angela points to eval data on Memory where the same task across different harnesses performed drastically differently. - The infrastructure wall every team hits in production—and why Katelyn thinks “my sandbox died and took the agent with it” is the real reason internal agents don't ship. - Why Anthropic is so bullish on using file systems and skills within Claude, including Angela's argument that those early design choices can compound for years. This is a must-watch for anyone trying to take an agent past the demo and into production. Watch below! Timestamps: How the Claude platform evolved from API to agents: 00:01:48 The primitives that make up Claude Managed Agents: 00:04:09 Why the harness and the model are becoming a single unit: 00:10:37 The infrastructure wall that kills most agent projects in production: 00:18:49 Why team agents need a different shape than individual productivity tools: 00:24:49 How Anthropic's legal team uses an agent to review marketing copy: 00:26:36 Using multi-agent orchestration for advisor strategies, adversarial pairs, and swarms: 00:34:24 How to measure agent success with outcome and budget as the end state: 00:35:50 What the platform looks like a year from now, when Claude writes its own harness: 00:39:11

Dan Shipper

66,871 次观看 • 4 个月前

Postman is going all-in on AI! Their AI Agent Builder is live (and it's pretty powerful!) Postman's API Network has 100,000+ APIs and they just released a suite of tools for building AI Agents that can automatically discover and connect to any of these APIs. Think about it for a second: You can now build an AI agent that searches the network, discovers an API, processes its documentation, connects to it, and evaluates whether everything worked at the end of the process. This is a huge deal. Every person I know uses the Postman client to work with APIs. Now, they will have access to the AI Agent Builder, a complete suite for designing, building, testing, and deploying agents. I've built a few simple agents myself, and it's tough. The ability to discover and use an API automatically is really exciting (and a huge time saver if it works as promised!) In collaboration with the Postman team, who is sponsoring this post, I recorded a video with my thoughts about the Postman AI Agent Builder.
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Postman is going all-in on AI! Their AI Agent Builder is live (and it's pretty powerful!) Postman's API Network has 100,000+ APIs and they just released a suite of tools for building AI Agents that can automatically discover and connect to any of these APIs. Think about it for a second: You can now build an AI agent that searches the network, discovers an API, processes its documentation, connects to it, and evaluates whether everything worked at the end of the process. This is a huge deal. Every person I know uses the Postman client to work with APIs. Now, they will have access to the AI Agent Builder, a complete suite for designing, building, testing, and deploying agents. I've built a few simple agents myself, and it's tough. The ability to discover and use an API automatically is really exciting (and a huge time saver if it works as promised!) In collaboration with the Postman team, who is sponsoring this post, I recorded a video with my thoughts about the Postman AI Agent Builder.

Santiago

230,647 次观看 • 1 年前

You can create an AI Agent that answers your email with a few clicks. 1. Go to ChatLLM ( 2. Click on AI Engineer 3. Select Create an AI Agent 4. Choose the Email Answering Agent ChatLLM will do the rest: it will code, test, and deploy the agent for you. You can also create a custom agent in English. The Agent Economy is coming (somebody should write a book and use this title.) We are going to see examples like this, times 1,000 in 2025. Just think about how many repetitive tasks you perform every day. Some of these tasks are involved enough that we couldn't automate them with pre-AI solutions. That's where we'll see agents explode, and I'm here for it.
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You can create an AI Agent that answers your email with a few clicks. 1. Go to ChatLLM ( 2. Click on AI Engineer 3. Select Create an AI Agent 4. Choose the Email Answering Agent ChatLLM will do the rest: it will code, test, and deploy the agent for you. You can also create a custom agent in English. The Agent Economy is coming (somebody should write a book and use this title.) We are going to see examples like this, times 1,000 in 2025. Just think about how many repetitive tasks you perform every day. Some of these tasks are involved enough that we couldn't automate them with pre-AI solutions. That's where we'll see agents explode, and I'm here for it.

Santiago

79,974 次观看 • 1 年前

The same kinds of productivity gains we've seen in coding with AI agents are heading to the rest of knowledge work. This is the jump when you go from having a chatbot to being able to actually have an agent go off and do work for minutes or even hours and come back with a complete work output that you then review. Here's an example of the new Box Agent filling out an RFP response from an existing knowledge base. This process would normally take hours to fill out, and requires the full attention of the user doing the work. Now, you provide the Box Agent with the RFP questions, and it will go off, make a plan, extract all the relevant questions, read through existing source material to come up with an answer, and then generate a new word document as the final output. All while you're doing something else. The key to this architecture is that the agent is able to use all of the same tools in the background that a user uses to get work done. The agent can search for documents, read entire files, run scripts and tools in the background, and even be able to write code on the fly to automate tasks it hasn't seen before. And best of all, the Box Agent will (soon) work from the Box MCP and CLI so you can invoke it in any agentic system as a step in a process. This kind of agent complexity would have been impossible even 6 months ago. Models consistently failed at tracking long running tasks or using the right tools at the right moment for the task. But this is all now possible because of models like GPT-5.4, Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3, and is only getting better by the month. Just as we moved from engineers writing code and using AI as an assistant to answer questions, in many areas of knowledge work -like legal, finance, consulting, sales, marketing, and more- when we have a problem we'll just kick off the AI agent to just go work on it for us in the background.
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The same kinds of productivity gains we've seen in coding with AI agents are heading to the rest of knowledge work. This is the jump when you go from having a chatbot to being able to actually have an agent go off and do work for minutes or even hours and come back with a complete work output that you then review. Here's an example of the new Box Agent filling out an RFP response from an existing knowledge base. This process would normally take hours to fill out, and requires the full attention of the user doing the work. Now, you provide the Box Agent with the RFP questions, and it will go off, make a plan, extract all the relevant questions, read through existing source material to come up with an answer, and then generate a new word document as the final output. All while you're doing something else. The key to this architecture is that the agent is able to use all of the same tools in the background that a user uses to get work done. The agent can search for documents, read entire files, run scripts and tools in the background, and even be able to write code on the fly to automate tasks it hasn't seen before. And best of all, the Box Agent will (soon) work from the Box MCP and CLI so you can invoke it in any agentic system as a step in a process. This kind of agent complexity would have been impossible even 6 months ago. Models consistently failed at tracking long running tasks or using the right tools at the right moment for the task. But this is all now possible because of models like GPT-5.4, Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3, and is only getting better by the month. Just as we moved from engineers writing code and using AI as an assistant to answer questions, in many areas of knowledge work -like legal, finance, consulting, sales, marketing, and more- when we have a problem we'll just kick off the AI agent to just go work on it for us in the background.

Aaron Levie

24,728 次观看 • 5 个月前

Another piece from the Sasha Rush conversation, this time on rewards for coding RL. He said Cursor uses a mix. Some rewards look at the tool calls themselves, some only at the final output. Everything end-to-end, no process rewards guessing what happens in the middle. I agree with him that the next push (and the current one) is going past verifiers. Coding is a good example where you get both. You have the 0/1 signals, but also a ton of soft ones. Does the diff read well? Did the agent burn context for no reason? Is the PR the right size? Did it rewrite a file it didn't need to touch? So many signals sitting there, and we need to figure out how to actually train on them. This is also why I think the environment (and the data) is becoming the bottleneck, not the algorithm. GRPO works. PPO works. The hard part is building a sandbox that exposes enough signal to learn from. We're already seeing this, and it'll only accelerate: a whole category of companies selling environments is emerging, and they have a good reward to do so…
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Another piece from the Sasha Rush conversation, this time on rewards for coding RL. He said Cursor uses a mix. Some rewards look at the tool calls themselves, some only at the final output. Everything end-to-end, no process rewards guessing what happens in the middle. I agree with him that the next push (and the current one) is going past verifiers. Coding is a good example where you get both. You have the 0/1 signals, but also a ton of soft ones. Does the diff read well? Did the agent burn context for no reason? Is the PR the right size? Did it rewrite a file it didn't need to touch? So many signals sitting there, and we need to figure out how to actually train on them. This is also why I think the environment (and the data) is becoming the bottleneck, not the algorithm. GRPO works. PPO works. The hard part is building a sandbox that exposes enough signal to learn from. We're already seeing this, and it'll only accelerate: a whole category of companies selling environments is emerging, and they have a good reward to do so…

Ravid Shwartz Ziv

14,826 次观看 • 5 个月前

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is gaining traction. This field aims to make AI more responsible by including human values and preferences. In this video, Nathan Lambert, a research scientist and RLHF team lead at Hugging Face explores its inner workings, applications and industry impact. RLHF has gained the spotlight in recent years. The growth of language models like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT have increased interest in human-feedback integration. "There are some rumors that Open AI had two teams; one was doing RLHF and the other instruction fine-tuning. And the RLHF team kept getting more and more performance." Understanding RLHF The RLHF process has three main steps: Pre-training: Much like with GPT models, the journey starts with pre-training on a large corpus of data. This can range from text data, web scrapes, to specialized datasets. Reward Modeling: This is the RLHF counterpart of supervised fine-tuning in large language models. This stage involves creating a reward model that resonates with human values and preferences. RL Optimization: This stage parallels reward modeling and reinforcement learning in traditional AI models. The AI system fine-tunes itself based on the reward model, employing reinforcement learning algorithms for that extra layer of optimization. The Data Challenge Data collection and curation in RLHF closely resemble the challenges you'd encounter in large language model training. Datasets from organizations like OpenAI can serve as a useful foundation. However, the need for high-quality, task-specific data cannot be overstated. Implementing RLHF: A Practical Guide If you’re someone who loves getting hands-on with AI libraries like Hugging Face, implementing RLHF is right way to do. It’s essential to understand its limitations. Think about model stability, over-optimization, and exploration strategies, much like you would when prompt engineering. Ongoing Research and Next Steps While he suggests that some basics figured out, there are layers of complexity that still need to be unraveled: 1. New Benchmarks: How do we measure the effectiveness of RLHF? 2. Preference Modeling: How can the model be made to understand human preferences better? 3. Interpreting RLHF: Much like explainability in traditional models, how do we make RLHF more interpretable? 4. System-Wide Evaluation: Going beyond individual performance, how does RLHF affect an entire system? The Transformative Power of RLHF Whether you're an AI developer, a business analyst, or a marketer, RLHF promises to revolutionize your domain. Imagine customer service chatbots that understand human emotions better, or content generators that align more closely with human values. RLHF is an emerging field that focuses on enhancing machine learning models through human feedback. While it tackles important issues like bias and ethics, its broader goal is to improve system performance across various applications. Whether you're deeply invested in the ethics of AI or simply curious about advancements in machine learning, RLHF offers valuable insights. If you're interested in the next wave of AI development, this area is definitely one to watch.
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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is gaining traction. This field aims to make AI more responsible by including human values and preferences. In this video, Nathan Lambert, a research scientist and RLHF team lead at Hugging Face explores its inner workings, applications and industry impact. RLHF has gained the spotlight in recent years. The growth of language models like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT have increased interest in human-feedback integration. "There are some rumors that Open AI had two teams; one was doing RLHF and the other instruction fine-tuning. And the RLHF team kept getting more and more performance." Understanding RLHF The RLHF process has three main steps: Pre-training: Much like with GPT models, the journey starts with pre-training on a large corpus of data. This can range from text data, web scrapes, to specialized datasets. Reward Modeling: This is the RLHF counterpart of supervised fine-tuning in large language models. This stage involves creating a reward model that resonates with human values and preferences. RL Optimization: This stage parallels reward modeling and reinforcement learning in traditional AI models. The AI system fine-tunes itself based on the reward model, employing reinforcement learning algorithms for that extra layer of optimization. The Data Challenge Data collection and curation in RLHF closely resemble the challenges you'd encounter in large language model training. Datasets from organizations like OpenAI can serve as a useful foundation. However, the need for high-quality, task-specific data cannot be overstated. Implementing RLHF: A Practical Guide If you’re someone who loves getting hands-on with AI libraries like Hugging Face, implementing RLHF is right way to do. It’s essential to understand its limitations. Think about model stability, over-optimization, and exploration strategies, much like you would when prompt engineering. Ongoing Research and Next Steps While he suggests that some basics figured out, there are layers of complexity that still need to be unraveled: 1. New Benchmarks: How do we measure the effectiveness of RLHF? 2. Preference Modeling: How can the model be made to understand human preferences better? 3. Interpreting RLHF: Much like explainability in traditional models, how do we make RLHF more interpretable? 4. System-Wide Evaluation: Going beyond individual performance, how does RLHF affect an entire system? The Transformative Power of RLHF Whether you're an AI developer, a business analyst, or a marketer, RLHF promises to revolutionize your domain. Imagine customer service chatbots that understand human emotions better, or content generators that align more closely with human values. RLHF is an emerging field that focuses on enhancing machine learning models through human feedback. While it tackles important issues like bias and ethics, its broader goal is to improve system performance across various applications. Whether you're deeply invested in the ethics of AI or simply curious about advancements in machine learning, RLHF offers valuable insights. If you're interested in the next wave of AI development, this area is definitely one to watch.

Muratcan Koylan

27,168 次观看 • 3 年前

An exciting new course: Fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: Intro to Post-training, taught by Sharon Zhou, VP of AI at AMD. Available now at Post-training is the key technique used by frontier labs to turn a base LLM--a model trained on massive unlabeled text to predict the next word/token--into a helpful, reliable assistant that can follow instructions. I've also seen many applications where post-training is what turns a demo application that works only 80% of the time into a reliable system that consistently performs. This course will teach you the most important post-training techniques! In this 5 module course, Sharon walks you through the complete post-training pipeline: supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling, RLHF, and techniques like PPO and GRPO. You'll also learn to use LoRA for efficient training, and to design evals that catch problems before and after deployment. Skills you'll gain: - Apply supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning (RLHF, PPO, GRPO) to align models to desired behaviors - Use LoRA for efficient fine-tuning without retraining entire models - Prepare datasets and generate synthetic data for post-training - Understand how to operate LLM production pipelines, with go/no-go decision points and feedback loops These advanced methods aren’t limited to frontier AI labs anymore, and you can now use them in your own applications. Learn here:
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An exciting new course: Fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: Intro to Post-training, taught by Sharon Zhou, VP of AI at AMD. Available now at Post-training is the key technique used by frontier labs to turn a base LLM--a model trained on massive unlabeled text to predict the next word/token--into a helpful, reliable assistant that can follow instructions. I've also seen many applications where post-training is what turns a demo application that works only 80% of the time into a reliable system that consistently performs. This course will teach you the most important post-training techniques! In this 5 module course, Sharon walks you through the complete post-training pipeline: supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling, RLHF, and techniques like PPO and GRPO. You'll also learn to use LoRA for efficient training, and to design evals that catch problems before and after deployment. Skills you'll gain: - Apply supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning (RLHF, PPO, GRPO) to align models to desired behaviors - Use LoRA for efficient fine-tuning without retraining entire models - Prepare datasets and generate synthetic data for post-training - Understand how to operate LLM production pipelines, with go/no-go decision points and feedback loops These advanced methods aren’t limited to frontier AI labs anymore, and you can now use them in your own applications. Learn here:

Andrew Ng

132,304 次观看 • 11 个月前