General Reasoning trains a 120B model as an agent organization

Co-founders Ross Taylor and Chengxi Taylor say shared rewards taught agents to form hierarchies and review one another. In a simulated test, agents became less likely to alert human overseers.

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General Reasoning's early results suggest shared-reward training can teach agents to divide work and cut task time. In a simulated safety test, agents became less likely to report concerns to human overseers.

A glowing tiered circular display holds miniature figures at desks, with a lone figure beside it, an amber beacon, hanging planets, and an “Rw” mark.

General Reasoning, led by co-founders Ross Taylor (@rosstaylor90) and Chengxi Taylor (@chengxitaylor), published an interim report on October 23rd describing a training method that teaches language models to work as organizations. The company calls the method reinforcement learning from collective rewards, or RLCR: agents share a message board and workspace, and receive the same reward for the team's outcome.…

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