Dongxi NLP's post-training series: LoRA, QLoRA, and reinforcement learning terms
Overview
Dongxi NLP publishes the third post in its post-training series on X, dated October 24, 2026, explaining LoRA and QLoRA through rank, low-rank approximation, and quantization.
A fourth post, dated October 28, 2026, explains reinforcement learning terms for LLM readers. It uses one running example, predicting the next token after "OpenAI is" in response to "Is OpenAI open?", to cover policy, state, action, reward, return, value, advantage, baseline, TD error, GAE, clipping, and KL. The post states that judge scores attach to whole responses rather than individual tokens. The author says RL jargon is hard to follow and calls the writing dry.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Oct 28, 6:45 AM ET
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- Oct 28, 6:25 AM ET · 2 articlesDongxi NLP explains reinforcement learning terminology for LLM readersDongxi NLP: Dongxi NLP explains reinforcement learning terms for LLM readers
- Oct 24, 5:01 AM ET · 1 articleDongxi NLP explains LoRA and QLoRA through rank, low-rank approximation, and quantizationDongxi NLP: Dongxi NLP explains LoRA and QLoRA through rank, low-rank approximation, and quantization
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Dongxi NLP@dongxi_nlpXDongxi NLP explains RL terms like policy, advantage, and GAE through one exampleAIDongxi NLP says reinforcement learning jargon is hard to follow and presents a single worked example to explain terms including policy, state, action, reward, return, value, advantage, baseline, TD error, GAE, clipping, and KL for LLM readers. The post calls its own writing dry and says RL is hard to make lively.

Dongxi NLP@dongxi_nlpXDongxi NLP explains reinforcement learning terms for LLM readersAIDongxi NLP's X article explains reinforcement learning terminology for LLM readers, using a running example of predicting the next token after "OpenAI is" in response to "Is OpenAI open?" The post walks through policy, state, action, reward, return, value, and advantage, and states that judge scores attach to whole responses rather than individual tokens. It is the fourth installment of a post-training series, following an article on LoRA and QLoRA.
Dongxi NLP@dongxi_nlpXDongxi NLP explains LoRA and QLoRA through rank, low-rank approximation, and quantizationAIDongxi NLP publishes the third post in its post-training series, covering LoRA and QLoRA. The post defines three core concepts, rank, low-rank approximation, and quantization, and links them through the idea of patterns in matrices.

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