refactor rl config: 1) remove unnecessary params; 2) model_config consistency #926
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There are actor_model_config, reference_model_config and rollout_model_config where there value might conflict with each other, if user don't overwrite them all explicitly. The benefits are:
Consistency
Current

where user overwrites the model to qwen-0.6b but the rest of the configs still show llama-8b, which is very confusing.
After this patch

Reusing checks in cli/config.py
A lot of checks / validations are based on model_config. Right now it seems for RL the config is set through reference_model_config. So to make it consistent, we can overwrite the model_config when no explicit configuration are set to model_config.
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