Reinforcement Learning without Verifiable Rewards
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 1:30pm-1:50pm
- Track/room: Posttraining & Midtraining · Track 9
- Speaker(s): Will Brown
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Verifiable rewards are the gold standard for RL training, but real-world agent tasks frequently lack
clean deterministic evaluation objectives. This talk surveys our efforts to scale RL in non-
verifiable settings -- including task synthesis, unsupervised environment design, and automatic
judge calibration -- to ultimately enable self-improvement in production, grounded in real-world
agent traces and domain-specific context.
Related YouTube Video
Reinforcement Learning for Agents - Will Brown, ML Researcher at Morgan Stanley (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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