Summary of The N+ Implementation Details Of Rlhf with Ppo: a Case Study on Tl;dr Summarization, by Shengyi Huang et al.
The N+ Implementation Details of RLHF with PPO: A Case Study on TL;DR Summarization
by Shengyi Huang, Michael Noukhovitch, Arian Hosseini, Kashif Rasul, Weixun Wang, Lewis Tunstall
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers reproduce the scaling behaviors of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) models, as reported in OpenAI’s seminal work on summarization. They create an RLHF pipeline from scratch and highlight key implementation details. The trained Pythia models demonstrate significant gains in response quality that scale with model size, outperforming a released 1.3B checkpoint. To facilitate further research, the authors publicly release trained model checkpoints and code. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making better AI models using feedback from humans. It’s like taking a class where you learn to write better summaries by getting feedback from your teacher. The researchers did this process many times with different-sized models and found that bigger models do better when they’re trained on human feedback. They want to share their code so other scientists can use it and make even better AI models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning from human feedback » Rlhf » Summarization
