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Reinforcement Learning Does NOT Fundamentally Improve AI Models

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NextBigFuture
Apr 27, 2025
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Reinforcement Learning does NOT make the base model more intelligent and limits the world of the base model in exchange for early pass performances. Graphs show that after pass 1000 the reasoning model is surpassed by the base. Above – Figure 1: (Left) The effect of RLVR on LLM’s reasoning ability. Search trees are generated ...

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