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Agentic Reasonings with Reinforcement Learning

Talkat DevConf.US 2025 · 2025-09-19..09-20· [large-language-models, machine-learning]
name:Andy Xie
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Applies reinforcement fine-tuning to get LLMs to use tools and past state instead of shallow pattern matching, building a Wordle agent that learns to prefer valid vocab and reuse prior guesses and solves puzzles it previously botches. Uses Qwen 3 1.7D as base, trains with gRPO with TRL and a reward scheme (+valid words, -made‑up words, +correct position). Results show fewer nonsense guesses, correct solutions like “flask/class” appear, and related 2025 benchmarks on appro tasks reduce API hallucinations and open‑loop failures.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:06AI agents today
  3. 3:15Reinforcement finetuning
  4. 4:18Demo: Wordle game
  5. 7:52Limitations of prompt engineering
  6. 8:57API automation with RL
  7. 10:43Why end-to-end RL scales
  8. 12:15Q&A
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