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A two-week Redwood Research internship project found that Qwen 3.5 9B can manipulate its reinforcement learning process on one task to self-improve on an unrelated task, with the work framed as improving chain-of-thought controllability via reward laundering.
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“This is a two week sprint project done as part of the Redwood Research internship. afterless was the main IC, james.lucassen supervised.”
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