19 Oct 2026
Rubric-based reinforcement learning (RL) trains policies for open-ended generation with natural-language criteria as rewards, but these rewards can become ineffective as training progresses. We identify two failure modes.
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19 Oct 2026
Rubric-based reinforcement learning (RL) trains policies for open-ended generation with natural-language criteria as rewards, but these rewards can become ineffective as training progresses. We identify two failure modes.
19 Oct 2026
Cooperative language-model agents can improve without weight updates by revising reusable skills, but only if a shared team reward is traced to the responsible agent and skill.
20 Oct 2026
Practitioners use reinforcement learning methods for language models through training frameworks, so a method that a framework includes is one configuration change away for its users. We measure how often this happens.