Reinforcement Learning on Pre-Training Data — mentioned by andy12_

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:47:48 GMT

Reinforcement learning is not done with random data found on the internet; it's done with curated high-quality labeled datasets. Although there have been approaches that try to apply reinforcement learning to pre-training[1] (to learn in an unsupervised way a predict-the-next-sentence objective), as far as I know it doesn't scale. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19249

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Reinforcement Learning on Pre-Training Data — mentioned by andy12_