value functions

1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 30, 2025 by Ashvin Nair · across every show →

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Dec 30, 2025 negative
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Nair: 2017–2022 academic RL breakthroughs failed because researchers overfit to benchmarks
“A lot of the methods that people were really excited about is, like you know, off policy learning, like, value functions, like, these kind of things, and somehow that, that stuff hasn't really panned out, I would say, and it's not exactly clear why, but in the…”
Ashvin Nair Dec 30, 2025 ▶ 9:26 [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
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