@Vtrivedy10: most of the value in understanding models + doing better RL Task generation comes in the QA step the entire process to …
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The article discusses the importance of integrating QA into RL task generation through an iterative process to improve AI pipelines and model evaluation, emphasizing the value of intuition in eval design.
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most of the value in understanding models + doing better RL Task generation comes in the QA step
the entire process to make a single task is deeply iterative:
- pick some capability (maybe informed by previous traces)
- build env + verifier first pass
- calibrate reward and difficulty by running different strength models on it
- mine the trajectories to detect reward hacking, missing information, poor design leading to leakage
- repeat in a loop with an agent
via iteratively fixing these failures, you get a much better feel for
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the good/bad in your pipeline for generating environments/tasks
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spiky model intelligence across task domains
intuition around eval design is prob the most valuable skill today as models get better, smarter, cheaper every generation
Jerry Wu (@Jerr_Wu): Many people separate RL Task Creation from QA. This is wrong. QA is inherently linked to task creation.
Great RL task creation is a constant iterative dance between task/env building, rollouts, QA, judgement, then repeat.
This is also why outsourcing QA as an RL env company
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