Thomas Kwa comments on Tsinghua paper: Does RL Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?

[Thomas Kwa]

Agree, I’m pretty confused about this discrepancy. I can’t rule out that it’s just the “RL can enable emergent capabilities” point.

[Cole Wyeth]

I am not confused, the results of this paper are expected on my model.