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Watch an AI learn to balance a stick — reinforcement learning in action

Watch an AI agent learn how to balance a stick—completely from scratch—using reinforcement learning! This project walks you through how an algorithm interacts with an environment, learns through trial ...
Microsoft

Agent Lightning: Adding reinforcement learning to AI agents without code rewrites

AI agents are reshaping software development, from writing code to carrying out complex instructions. Yet LLM-based agents are prone to errors and often perform poorly on complicated, multi-step tasks ...
GitHub

DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research

DR Tulu-8B is the first open Deep Research (DR) model trained for long-form DR tasks. DR Tulu-8B matches OpenAI DR on long-form DR benchmarks. agent/: Agent library (dr-agent-lib) with MCP-based tool ...
InfoWorld

AI and machine learning outside of Python

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.
marktechpost

Google AI Unveils Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL): A Step Wise Framework with Expert Trajectories to Teach Small Language Models to Reason through Hard Problems

How can a small model learn to solve tasks it currently fails at, without rote imitation or relying on a correct rollout? A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research and UCLA have released a ...
acm.org

Rediscovering Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning (RL) is machine learning (ML) in which the learning system adjusts its behavior to maximize the amount of reward and minimize the amount of punishment it receives over time ...
MIT Technology Review

Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...