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23 JUL 2026 · Paper

This paper develops a method called Experience Distillation that allows agents to learn from their own interaction histories without needing additional environment interactions, making learning more sample-efficient. Practitioners might care about this because it can improve the performance of agents in complex environments with limited resources.

19 JUN 2026 · Podcast · Dwarkesh Podcast

This episode argues that current AI progress is primarily driven by an immense quantity of high-quality, task-specific data, rather than improvements in sample efficiency. The speaker highlights the vast data requirements of frontier models…