Policy Learning in RLHF
The policy learning stage in RLHF is an iterative fine-tuning process. For each step, a prompt, , is sampled from a dataset, . The current language model, acting as the policy, then generates a corresponding output, , by sampling from its probability distribution, . This input-output pair, {x, y}, is evaluated by the trained reward model, which assigns it a numerical reward score, . This score serves as the feedback signal for a reinforcement learning algorithm, which updates the policy's parameters to favor outputs that receive higher rewards.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
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