Pair-wise Ranking Loss Formula for RLHF Reward Model
The pair-wise ranking loss function is used to train a reward model. The expected loss formula is expressed as:
In this equation, represents the parameters of the reward model , and is a set of tuples consisting of an input and a pair of outputs. The term signifies a sampling operation drawing a tuple from with a specific probability. For instance, we might first draw a model input with a uniform distribution, then draw a pair of outputs based on the conditional probability that is preferred over given , denoted mathematically as .

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