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The speaker says RLMs trained on tasks naturally generalize to longer versions when the underlying strategy remains the same and only the length changes.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“As you just naively train your RLM on these tasks,”
“they naturally learn to generalize, for example, to longer tasks because the strategy is basically the same. You're just modifying like a length variable.”Play from 36:01Report a misattribution
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