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The speaker says reinforcement learning needs curricula, unlike pre-training, because the exploration problem is not an issue for pre-training.
Beren Millidge · AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement · 11 Sept 2026
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“yeah this just comes back to like the RL signal problem like RL is not very good at like exploring right now and so like if you if the model can't like get in like you know 128 rollout it's very unlikely to get signal to like progress and this is why like in RL we need like curricular whereas like in pre-training we don't because like it's that's not a problem for pre-training at all”Play from 1:04:17Report a misattribution
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