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KL regularization in RL and mode collapse

An article dated October 24, 2025, examines reverse KL and forward KL in reinforcement learning, questioning whether the familiar intuition about mode-seeking and mass-covering applies directly.

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olmOCR 2 uses verifiable rewards for OCR

Published on October 22, 2025, the post presents an OCR model for PDFs and scans, supporting tables, equations, and handwriting. Its approach combines synthetic data and unit tests as verifiable rewards.

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MTEB v2 updates embedding evaluation

Published on October 20, 2025, version 2 of the MTEB suite introduces simplified evaluation, multimodal support, rerankers, new interfaces, documentation, dataset statistics, and migration guidance.

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LaSeR explores last-token rewards for LLMs

In a post dated October 19, 2025, Tencent presents LaSeR, a reinforcement learning algorithm that aligns last-token scores with real rewards for reasoning and LLM self-rewarding. The post mentions one extra token inference.

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