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Overview
- Research examines why two-stage fine-tuning (RM + RL) outperforms direct optimization
- Paper challenges intuition that two-stage processes should lose information
- Identifies "generation-verification gap" as key to explaining this discrepancy
- Finds that simpler reward models combined with RL-based policy search is more effective
- Results suggest RL's value comes from filtering policies that perform well for verifiers
Plain English Explanation
Why do the best AI language models use a seemingly roundabout training method? This paper tackles this puzzle.
When experts fine-tune large language models like GPT-4, they typically use a two-step process. First, they train a "reward model" that learns human preferences. Then...
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Mike Young
Mike Young | Sciencx (2025-03-09T06:57:32+00:00) Groundbreaking Study Reveals Why Two-Stage AI Training Works Better Than Direct Optimization. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/03/09/groundbreaking-study-reveals-why-two-stage-ai-training-works-better-than-direct-optimization/
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