Regularized Pairwise Loss Function for Reward Model Training
To prevent the reward scores from becoming excessively large during training, a regularization term can be added to the standard pairwise loss function. This regularized loss, , combines the pairwise loss () with a term that penalizes the squared sum of the rewards for a given pair. The complete formula is:
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