Why Does Reinforcement Learning Generalize? A Feature-Level Mechanistic Study of Post-Training in Large Language Models
Published in Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026
Recommended citation: Dan Shi, Zhuowen Han, Simon Ostermann, Renren Jin, Josef van Genabith, and Deyi Xiong. (2026). "Why Does Reinforcement Learning Generalize? A Feature-Level Mechanistic Study of Post-Training in Large Language Models." Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers).
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