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Analysis of Clipping Mechanism based on Advantage Sign
When training a language model, a clipped objective function is often used to stabilize policy updates. This objective involves multiplying a clipped probability ratio by an advantage estimate for each token. Explain how the clipping mechanism's effect on the policy update changes depending on whether the advantage estimate for a given token is positive versus when it is negative.
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Ch.4 Alignment - Foundations of Large Language Models
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Analysis of Clipping Mechanism based on Advantage Sign