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Glossary: Transformers Basics

RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback)

Also written: RLHF, reinforcement learning from human feedback

Human comparisons of answers train a reward model, and reinforcement learning then nudges the language model toward high-scoring answers. It is part of what turns a base model into an assistant.

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Reward modelDPO (direct preference optimization)Instruction tuning (SFT)