Summary of Nemo-aligner: Scalable Toolkit For Efficient Model Alignment, by Gerald Shen et al.
NeMo-Aligner: Scalable Toolkit for Efficient Model Alignment
by Gerald Shen, Zhilin Wang, Olivier Delalleau, Jiaqi Zeng, Yi Dong, Daniel Egert, Shengyang Sun, Jimmy Zhang, Sahil Jain, Ali Taghibakhshi, Markel Sanz Ausin, Ashwath Aithal, Oleksii Kuchaiev
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This abstract presents a novel toolkit, NeMo-Aligner, for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and preferences. The toolkit is designed to efficiently scale to thousands of GPUs, making it suitable for training the largest open-source LLMs. NeMo-Aligner supports various model alignment paradigms, including RLHF, DPO, SteerLM, and SPIN, as well as Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT). The toolkit is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 License and invites community contributions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a special tool to help make big language models match human values. This is important because we want these models to be helpful and safe. The tool, called NeMo-Aligner, can work with very large models that have billions of parts. It uses different methods like reinforcement learning and direct preference optimization to align the model with what humans prefer. The tool is designed to be easy to use and modify, so people can add new features or help improve it. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Fine tuning » Optimization » Parameter efficient » Reinforcement learning » Rlhf
