@hallerite: GLM5.2 brings back the critic. It was just a matter of time until we people would realize that group-based variance red…
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GLM5.2 reintroduces a critic component for fine-grained variance reduction, suggesting that group-based methods are ineffective for long horizons. The author believes OpenAI and Anthropic already use value models.
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GLM5.2 brings back the critic.
It was just a matter of time until we people would realize that group-based variance reduction is unfeasible after some horizon length. We need to be more fine-grained. I am sure OAI and Ant have been using value models for quite some time. https://t.co/Sr5hrAxczu
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