My peers and I came across a paper by Chen et al.(2026) that looks at what happens after LLMs finish their initial training phase.
What caught our attention: at some point, the model becomes so confident in its answers that it actually stops improving - even with more training.
The paper proposes a novel approach - using an older, weaker version of the model to keep pushing the stronger one forward.
We turned it into an interactive demo where you can:
- Step through SFT training and watch gradients vanish
- Drag a lambda slider to see logit mixing in action
- Compare SFT vs WMSS epoch by epoch
- Walk through the full training pipeline with animations
No ML background needed.
Paper: Chen et al. (2026) - "How Weak Agents Make Strong Agents Stronger"(arXiv:2602.08222)
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