Post training - Reinforcement Learning

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The post on post-training SFT covered four finetuning experiments on direct and reasoning tasks using LoRA and full-finetuning approaches. This post covers different reinforcement learning (RL) approaches used in post-training.

SFT teaches a model by giving it examples to imitate. The training data contains target responses, and the model learns to generate tokens from the target distribution.

RL takes a different approach. Instead of showing the model exactly how to solve a problem, we let it generate solutions, evaluate how good those solutions are, and update the model so that successful behaviour becomes more likely.

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Post training - Reinforcement Learning