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Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Human demonstrations and preference feedback are used to improve how a language model follows instructions.

Long Ouyang et al.
2022-03 · OpenAI · Research paper
Source checked: 2026-10-24Credited institutions · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States
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Distinguish pretraining from supervised instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from feedback.

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@misc{ouyang2022training,
  title = {Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback},
  author = {Long Ouyang and Jeff Wu and Xu Jiang and Diogo Almeida and Carroll L. Wainwright and Pamela Mishkin and Chong Zhang and Sandhini Agarwal and Katarina Slama and Alex Ray and John Schulman and Jacob Hilton and Fraser Kelton and Luke Miller and Maddie Simens and Amanda Askell and Peter Welinder and Paul Christiano and Jan Leike and Ryan Lowe},
  year = {2022},
  eprint = {2203.02155},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155}
}

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