Person
Shunyu Yao
Appears alongside
Featured in threads
Tracks
- Ideas & essays 3
- Benchmarks & progress 1
Shunyu Yao publishes 'The Second Half', arguing RL environment design now matters more than training
A Princeton researcher and former OpenAI staffer argued the field's bottleneck had shifted from training methods to designing tasks and evaluations that reward real-world usefulness.
Ideas & essays
Tree of Thoughts adds search to model reasoning
Letting a model branch, evaluate and backtrack over intermediate steps raised Game-of-24 success from 4% to 74% against chain-of-thought.
Ideas & essays · Benchmarks & progress
ReAct paper describes interleaving reasoning and acting in language models
Alternating reasoning traces with actions against external tools, tested on question-answering, fact-checking and simulated shopping and household tasks.
Ideas & essays