Design the Feedback, Not Just the Reward: Environments for Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.27906v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning has advanced large language models on tasks with reliable verifiers, where checking an outcome provides a clear basis for reward. Extending this approach to open-ended tasks requires environments that can both evaluate complex, partially successful outputs and turn these judgments into effective learning guidance. We propose a reinforcement learning framework built around a training environment that integrates human doma…