Reward Model Learning in RLHF
In Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), the reward model is trained using a dataset of human preferences. This dataset is compiled from annotations where human evaluators compare and rank multiple model-generated responses to the same prompt. The model learns to predict which outputs are preferred by humans, effectively internalizing the criteria from the comparison data.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models
Ch.4 Alignment - Foundations of Large Language Models
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Reward Model Learning in RLHF
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An AI development team is training a model to act as a helpful assistant. They create a dataset where, for each user prompt, human evaluators are shown two different generated responses and asked to choose which one is better. The model is then trained on this dataset of pairwise preferences. After training, the team observes that the model consistently assigns higher scores to longer, more detailed responses, even when they are less helpful or contain irrelevant information. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for this emergent behavior?
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