LLM Unleashed: Deep dive into fundamental concepts of LLM
By Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
October 18, 2024
Summary
What a delight to summarize and provide insights into the reward model!
It seems like a crucial step in combining the power of language models with the guidance of a reward function.
To recap, we have two key components: (1) a language model that generates sequences, and (2) a reward model that scores these generated sequences. The combined objective function takes the form:
P(θ | TR) = RM - β log(P(θ | TR))
The key insight is that we want to balance two competing goals: (a) maximizing the reward (RM), and (b) minimizing the deviation from the pre-trained model (P(θ | TR)). By combining these two components with a minus sign, we effectively prioritize the reward while still constraining the generation to stay close to the pre-trained knowledge.
This combined objective function is the foundation for training our final large language model, which can be deployed and released to the public.
As we move forward, I'd like to highlight some key takeaways:
Generative AI has numerous applications, from natural language processing to computer vision.
Understanding the context, following instructions, and assessing the quality of generated text are essential for good generations.
Supervised fine-tuning and instruction fine-tuning are both important techniques for fine-tuning language models.
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