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#Reinforcement Learning

10 articles on Reinforcement Learning — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

That 100x-Cheaper Retrieval Claim Is Half Right

Neon and Castform's benchmark-free demo still marks a real shift in who needs frontier models for RAG.

A tiny GRPO run on two workstation GPUs outscored five frontier models at catalog review — asterisks included.

The self-scored benchmark deserves skepticism, but the playbook behind it is real, cheap, and already running at Shopify scale.

Effort levels won because reasoning depth is trained, not dialed — and your cost model needs to catch up.

A from-scratch Super Mario world model clears short-horizon tests, then stalls on distant goals.

Open weights, real Runpod jobs, and held-out transfer make meta-RL a forkable template, not theater.

Cognition's new model matches frontier performance at a fraction of the cost by solving core RL scaling bottlenecks.

By optimizing both the reasoning loop and the code output, these MIT-licensed models bring native agentic capabilities to local hardware.

Qwen-AgentWorld replaces heavy external simulators with a native language world model to train and evaluate AI agents.

VibeThinker-3B matches flagship math and code reasoning, then collapses on general knowledge. That gap is the real lesson.