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The speaker argues that harnesses can substantially improve a model's generalization capability and expand the amount of data it can use.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“And so what I'm trying to get at with this whole blog post is just that like, we should rethink”
“what the role of the harness is because harnesses can actually greatly increase the generalization capability of your model and the amount of data that it's given and this is not exclusive to RLMs I think there is a wide class of harnesses that are yet to be discovered that actually can yield similar properties and to extend this argument a little bit further I think what you can also extrapolate from this is like if I look at an RLM”
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