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Post-Training at the Edge of Detectability: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Fine-Tuning
Keegan Harris, Brian W. Lee, Ian Waudby-Smith +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning is widely used in language model training to improve performance on a target task while limiting drift from a reference policy. A standard w…
cs.LG2026
Blackwell Approachability and Gradient Equilibrium are Equivalent
Brian W. Lee, Nika Haghtalab, Michael I. Jordan +1
Gradient equilibrium (GEQ) is a recently introduced online optimization framework that generalizes first-order stationarity from offline optimization and abstracts problems like on…