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Research Scientist at Google Zürich, Computer Science Student at ETH Zürich
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Autoregressive sequence models like transformers develop internal representations of semantically meaningful abstract actions!

Enters Internal RL: An AI inside an AI that solves hard problems by manipulating these abstractions to steer the outer model.
Seijin Kobayashi @SeijinKobayashi Jan 6
Standard reinforcement learning in raw tokens is a disaster for sparse rewards!

Here, we propose 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗟: acting on abstract actions emerging in the residual stream representation.

A paradigm shift in using pretrained models to solve hard, long-horizon tasks! 🧵
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A bit late to our release party: Everyone knows linear attention, the architecture. Little know that learning weights via GD corresponds to linear attention over activations (keys) to retrieve backproped gradients (values). What if we generalize this dual form to replace weight matrices altogether?

Introducing: Retrieval Centric Deep Learning (RCDL)
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Internal RL goes 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷. Catch me at the Recursive Self Improvement workshop @iclr_conf!!! @ninoscherrer and me will present our work and stick around the entire day.

Poster sessions: 10:00 - 10:30 & 12:00 - 12:30 @ Room 101 - D

Let’s close the loops🚀.
Seijin Kobayashi @SeijinKobayashi Jan 6
Standard reinforcement learning in raw tokens is a disaster for sparse rewards!

Here, we propose 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗟: acting on abstract actions emerging in the residual stream representation.

A paradigm shift in using pretrained models to solve hard, long-horizon tasks! 🧵
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MesaNet goes 🇧🇷. @ninoscherrer and me will present tomorrow @iclr_conf.
Nino Scherrer @ninoscherrer Apr 23
Come catch @yaschimpf & me tomorrow @iclr_conf in 🇧🇷 presenting MesaNet:

- Presentation @Google Booth: 10am to 10.30am
- Poster: 3.15pm to 5.45pm @ Pavilion 3, #604

And please reach out if you wanna chat throughout the conference!
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Yanick Schimpf Verified account @yaschimpf
Nice summary by @ninoscherrer on Internal RL: 𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 “𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 “𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻”
Nino Scherrer @ninoscherrer Jan 6
LLMs explore literally “one token at a time” during RL -- very inefficient :/

𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: (1) Identify abstractions within model activations (2) RL to control them

𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 “𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 “𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻”
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