REINFORCING RECURSIVE LANGUAGE MODELS

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The article discusses using reinforcement learning to fine-tune 4B models as recursive language models (RLMs) for production, achieving efficient task-specific behavior at a lower cost. By training a shared policy for both parent and child RLMs, this approach maintains task performance and reduces the need for multiple models. In tests, this method matches the performance of larger models like Claude Sonnet 4.6 but operates with significantly reduced size and cost.