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New Book Explores Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Nathan Lambert has completed his book, "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback," which aims to provide a foundational resource for fine-tuning, aligning, and post-training models like ChatGPT. The book, developed over nights and weekends since 2024, incorporates insights from building the Olmo model. It will be released with a comprehensive 10-hour course, including slides, functional code, and an example model completions library, alongside a free online version. Physical copies are expected to ship from Manning and Amazon within a few weeks. AI

IMPACT Provides a new educational resource for practitioners working with large language models and alignment techniques.

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  1. X — Nathan Lambert (Interconnects) TIER_1 English(EN) · natolambert ·

    My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is done!

    My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is done! This is the book I wish I had when learning to fine-tune, align, &amp; now post-train models since ChatGPT. The resource has been built by me finding time to study and document the fundamentals on nights and weekends s…