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The speaker expects compositional harnesses to make each language-model call in distribution, even when the overall task is out of distribution.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“If an RLM breaks down its computation into like a kind of a meta harness of sorts or like a program that involves sub agents that like look at a local problem,”
“every individual language model call over the course of this task is in distribution,”
“even if the entire task itself is out of distribution.”Play from 48:30Report a misattribution
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