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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) introduced in paper: Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (Christiano et al., 2017).
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- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
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- Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (Christiano et al., 2017)
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- rlhf · alignment · foundational · christiano · 2017 · nips
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[1] preprint · arXiv (Christiano, Leike, Brown, Martic, Legg, Amodei) · 2017-06-12
Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences“For sophisticated reinforcement learning (RL) systems to interact usefully with real-world environments, we need to communicate complex goals to these systems. … We explore goals defined in terms of (non-expert) human preferences between pairs of trajectory segments.”
[2] peer reviewed · NeurIPS Foundation · 2017-12-04
Deep RL from Human Preferences (NeurIPS 2017 proceedings)[3] official blog · OpenAI · 2017-06-13
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