KL-Divergence Penalty in RLHF Policy Optimization
A penalty term is incorporated into the RLHF objective function to regularize the policy and prevent it from deviating excessively from a reference policy. This penalty is formulated as the difference between the log probabilities of a sequence under the current policy () and the reference policy (), summed over all tokens in the sequence. The formula is: .
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Ch.4 Alignment - Foundations of Large Language Models
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KL-Divergence Penalty in RLHF Policy Optimization
A team is fine-tuning a language model where the only goal is to adjust the model's parameters to maximize the average score from a fixed reward model. After many training iterations, the team observes that while the policy consistently achieves high reward scores, the generated text is becoming repetitive and stylistically unnatural. What is the most likely reason for this outcome, based on the optimization objective?
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KL-Divergence Penalty in RLHF Policy Optimization
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During the policy optimization phase of training a large language model, the model is being rewarded for providing detailed explanations. The 'reference policy' is a version of the model that typically gives concise, direct answers. The current policy generates two possible responses to a user's query:
Response A: 'Yes.' Response B: 'Affirmative, the data you have presented aligns with the expected parameters, and therefore, the conclusion you have reached is indeed correct and validated.'
Assuming the reference policy would have a very high probability of generating Response A and a near-zero probability of generating Response B, which response would incur a larger penalty term designed to prevent deviation from the reference policy, and why?
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