<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>枫语 - English Overviews &amp; Essays</title><description>Research notes, essays, and technical overviews on AI, RL, causal inference, and LLMs by Feng Yu.</description><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/</link><generator>Astro</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>2026年10月28日 17:16:33</lastBuildDate><item><title>How Much Wind Does a Wind-Only Strandbeest Need? Evidence Tiers, Two Solvers, and Negative Results</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/strandbeest-wind-evidence-and-negative-results/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/strandbeest-wind-evidence-and-negative-results/</guid><description>Two independent physics solvers (MuJoCo and K2), E0–E3 evidence grading, a 30-cell scale study on start wind speed, and our hardest negative results: why pin friction shifts start wind by 2.59x, why kinematic screening anti-correlates with dynamics among top candidates, and why robust optimization flips across solvers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building Reusable Experimental Conclusions: Versions, Failures, and Decisions</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-06-conclusions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-06-conclusions/</guid><description>Connect immutable artifacts, comparable evaluations, failure records, and the next research decision.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Model Behavior Changes After Delivery: Templates, Quantization, and Regression</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-05-delivery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-05-delivery/</guid><description>Separate input contracts, weight conversion, generation, parsing, and task-level regression.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Training Results Change: Precision, Data Order, and Resume Semantics</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-04-reproduction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-04-reproduction/</guid><description>Distinguish numerical variation from changed training semantics and test full-state checkpoint restoration.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Accounting for Training Cost: Tokens, Compute, Time, and Peak Memory</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-03-costs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-03-costs/</guid><description>Separate token denominators, approximate FLOPs, measured runtime, memory components, and end-to-end research costs.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Benchmarks, Human Ratings, and Model Judges Measure</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-02-evidence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-02-evidence/</guid><description>Separate correctness from preference, calibrate judges, and disclose ordering, ties, contamination, and uncertainty.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Training Comparisons That Answer a Question: Hypotheses, Baselines, and Repeats</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-01-experiments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-eval-01-experiments/</guid><description>Define interventions, budgets, paired repeats, failure rules, and the limits of training conclusions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Evaluating Tool Models: Success, Reliability, and Cost</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-06-evaluation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-06-evaluation/</guid><description>Separate candidate coverage from repeated reliability and report costs, constraints, and paired regressions.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Learning from Failed Trajectories: Repairs, Supervision, and Selection Bias</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-05-failures/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-05-failures/</guid><description>Separate retries from training, validate repaired actions, and avoid reinforcing errors or hiding selection bias.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Independent Tool Evaluation: Resets, Randomness, and Replay</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-04-environments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-04-environments/</guid><description>Detect cross-task cache contamination, separate random sources, and distinguish replay from fresh execution.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rewards for Multistep Tasks: Outcomes, Call Costs, and Recovery</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-03-rewards/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-03-rewards/</guid><description>Trace returns through tool interactions and examine how costs, shaping, and retries change the objective.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SFT for Tool Interfaces: Syntax, Arguments, and Task Completion</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-02-supervision/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-02-supervision/</guid><description>Inspect decision prefixes, target masks, repeated supervision, and closed-loop evaluation before training tool-use models.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tool-Use Samples: From Inventory Lookups to Interaction Trajectories</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-01-trajectories/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-tool-01-trajectories/</guid><description>Separate requested actions, executed results, and final answers in a controlled inventory task.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Interpreting RL Results: Sampling Gains, Reward Loopholes, and Generalization</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-06-evaluation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-06-evaluation/</guid><description>Separate parameter updates from inference budgets, candidate coverage from selection, and proxy rewards from independent task success.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How GRPO Compares Responses: Group Advantages, Zero Variation, and Length Weights</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-05-grpo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-05-grpo/</guid><description>Constructed group calculations explain reward normalization, homogeneous groups, sampling cost, and sequence-versus-token aggregation.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What PPO Limits: Probability Ratios, Clipping, and Value Estimates</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-04-ppo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-04-ppo/</guid><description>Positive and negative advantage examples explain PPO-Clip, its limits, reference policies, and terminal handling in GAE.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Policy Gradients Use Rewards: Four Responses and a Baseline</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-03-policy-gradient/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-03-policy-gradient/</guid><description>An enumerated softmax policy explains reward-weighted gradients, baseline conditions, variance, and implementation boundaries.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Does the Reward Actually Check? Answers, Formats, Tests, and Process Feedback</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-02-verifiers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-02-verifiers/</guid><description>An executable integer checker illustrates verifier coverage, malformed outputs, incomplete tests, and the difference between composite reward and task success.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Formulating Language Model Reinforcement Learning: Responses, Rewards, and Updates</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-01-formulation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/llm-training-rl-01-formulation/</guid><description>A small integer task separates token actions, terminal rewards, sampling budgets, and parameter updates.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Real Fly Mushroom Body Circuit as a Fixed Learning Skeleton</title><link>https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/fly-connectome-01-framework/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://meiluosi.github.io/en/posts/fly-connectome-01-framework/</guid><description>How a real fruit fly mushroom body circuit becomes a fixed learning skeleton, and how five ablation arms isolate wiring from rule.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>