@SOURADIPCHAKR18: We describe early experiments on *pedagogical RL*: A bitter-lesson-pilled paradigm of *training* privileged self-teache…
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Introduces pedagogical RL, a paradigm where privileged self-teachers are trained to generate correct and easy-to-follow rollouts, showing it is a relatively easy RL problem.
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We describe early experiments on pedagogical RL:
A bitter-lesson-pilled paradigm of training privileged self-teachers to teach themselves how to generate rollouts that are correct and whose every step is easy to follow.
Turns out: this is a relatively easy RL problem! https://t.co/ul6FECyu83
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