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The speaker says retrieval and aggregation tasks may differ greatly in domain and in the trajectories of a regular language model, while sharing similar solutions.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“is very similar across like tasks where you don't even like it's not even that clear to you that the solutions are similar so in this example we have like a retrieval task and we have like a an aggregation task and they're very very different query like the domain is just completely different and when you train a regular language model over these two tasks the trajectories look very different and so what you're relying when you like let's say you use pi or”Play from 34:54Report a misattribution
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