RLTL;DR: Self-Improvement by Internalizing Self-Generated Feedback
The common paradigm of reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is to let agents make multiple attempts at a task, and optimize towards the successful ones. This becom
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RLTL;DR: Self-Improvement by Internalizing Self-Generated Feedback - Apple Machine Learning Research RLTL;DR: Self-Improvement by Internalizing Self-Generated Feedback Authors Michael Kirchhof, Eleonora Gualdoni, Andrew Szot, Khashayar Gatmiry, Aryo Lotfi, Abbas Kazerouni, Omar Attia, Sanjoy Chowdhury, Alexander Toshev
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