RLHF
Reinforcement learning from human feedback, where preference judgments shape model behavior.
What RLHF does not show
It aligns outputs with sampled raters and policies, not with an objective definition of truth.
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Questions about RLHF
What is RLHF?
Reinforcement learning from human feedback, where preference judgments shape model behavior.
What does RLHF not show or guarantee?
It aligns outputs with sampled raters and policies, not with an objective definition of truth.
Which area of the glossary does RLHF belong to?
Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
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