Research & academia
Automating eval design and hillclimbing with Claude
Anthropic publishes an evaluation and iterative-improvement workflow.
Why it matters: Evaluation-driven iteration needs representative tasks and checks against overfitting.
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On-Policy or Off-Policy Learning? A Systematic Study of Distillation Dynamics
A controlled distillation study finds the effect of student-generated rollouts depends on the objective, learning rate and evaluation setting.
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