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LessWrong: RL for LLMs works despite bits-per-rollout gap vs pretraining

LessWrong: RL for LLMs works despite bits-per-rollout gap vs pretraining

A blog post on LessWrong lays out the common argument that RL for LLMs accumulates about 1/rollout_length bits per sample versus pretraining, and asks why RL still succeeds.

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