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The speaker says RLM training can make different problems appear equivalent at the overall-strategy level because a sub-agent handles an easier subtask for each problem.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“codcode or something which is not in this blog but we do have these results you'll find that like these harnesses distinguish too much between these problems even though the solutions are the same and so one thing that we find when training rlm's is that like when it sees these problems it's the same and the reason it sees these problems as the same is the sub agent sees different problems but the sub agent is solving an easier sub task and so you're”Play from 35:20Report a misattribution
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