Cauchy-Schwarz

Definition

A basic math inequality that puts a ceiling on how big a certain combination of two things can get.

The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounding inner products by the product of norms; used in this corpus to prove that low reward variance caps the magnitude of policy gradients.

Mentioned in 2 episodes

1. 076
   Same Model, Organized Differently: How an Agent Architecture Beat Frontier Systems at Research Math
2. 010
   When Reward Climbs But Reasoning Goes Generic: Diagnosing Template Collapse in Agentic RL