Advances in Reward Modeling and Reinforcement Learning

The field of reinforcement learning and reward modeling is moving towards more efficient and effective methods for training autonomous systems and aligning language models with human preferences. Recent developments have focused on improving the stability and reliability of reinforcement learning algorithms, as well as developing new methods for generating high-quality reward signals. Notably, researchers have been exploring the use of offline reinforcement learning, active learning, and energy-based reward models to enhance the robustness and generalization of reward models. These advances have the potential to improve the performance of autonomous systems and language models in a wide range of applications. Notable papers in this area include Offline Reinforcement Learning using Human-Aligned Reward Labeling, Efficient Process Reward Model Training via Active Learning, and Energy-Based Reward Models for Robust Language Model Alignment. These papers demonstrate significant improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of reward modeling and reinforcement learning algorithms, and highlight the potential for these methods to be applied in real-world settings.

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Offline Reinforcement Learning using Human-Aligned Reward Labeling for Autonomous Emergency Braking in Occluded Pedestrian Crossing

Efficient Process Reward Model Training via Active Learning

Better Estimation of the KL Divergence Between Language Models

REWARD CONSISTENCY: Improving Multi-Objective Alignment from a Data-Centric Perspective

Measures of Variability for Risk-averse Policy Gradient

A Comprehensive Survey of Reward Models: Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges, and Future

Activated LoRA: Fine-tuned LLMs for Intrinsics

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Persona-judge: Personalized Alignment of Large Language Models via Token-level Self-judgment

Chinese-Vicuna: A Chinese Instruction-following Llama-based Model

MAIN: Mutual Alignment Is Necessary for instruction tuning

QLLM: Do We Really Need a Mixing Network for Credit Assignment in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning?

LLMs Meet Finance: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models for the Open FinLLM Leaderboard

Energy-Based Reward Models for Robust Language Model Alignment

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