Interesting Engineering

US researchers build fall-safe biped robots to advance real-world reinforcement learning

HybridLeg robots Olaf and Snogie use impact-safe design and self-recovery to enable scalable, real-world hardware ...

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025) ...
Daily Excelsior

Machine Learning Methods Used for Portfolio Optimization and Risk Management

Machine learning is reshaping the way portfolios are built, monitored, and adjusted. Investors are no longer limited to ...
VentureBeat

Google’s new AI training method helps small models tackle complex reasoning

Researchers at Google Cloud and UCLA have proposed a new reinforcement learning framework that significantly improves the ability of language models to learn very challenging multi-step reasoning ...
InfoWorld

AI and machine learning outside of Python

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.
The Robot Report

AgiBot deploys its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system

AgiBot announced a key milestone this week with the successful deployment of its Real-World Reinforcement Learning system in a manufacturing pilot with Longcheer Technology. The pilot project marks ...
marktechpost

Google AI Unveils Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL): A Step Wise Framework with Expert Trajectories to Teach Small Language Models to Reason through Hard Problems

How can a small model learn to solve tasks it currently fails at, without rote imitation or relying on a correct rollout? A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research and UCLA have released a ...
TechCrunch

The reinforcement gap — or why some AI skills improve faster than others

AI coding tools are getting better fast. If you don’t work in code, it can be hard to notice how much things are changing, but GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 have made a whole new set of developer tricks ...
IEEE

GRFuzz: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Python Library Fuzzing with GRPO

Abstract: In the digital realm, ensuring the security and reliability of systems and software is of paramount importance. Fuzzing has emerged as one of the most effective testing techniques for ...