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Nathan Lambert releases textbook on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Nathan Lambert has released a new textbook titled "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Aligning and Post-training LLMs," published by Manning. The book aims to provide foundational knowledge and intuitive explanations of post-training techniques for large language models, covering topics like rejection sampling and outcome reward models. It is available both online and in print, with a discount code for readers and accompanying resources such as a YouTube course and code examples. AI

IMPACT Provides foundational knowledge for researchers and practitioners in LLM post-training and alignment.

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  1. Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) TIER_1 English(EN) · Nathan Lambert ·

    5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)

    After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!