arXiv AI By Jingwei Song, Haofeng Xu, Jie Xiao, Chengke Bao, Jingwei Shi, Pengbin Feng, Weixun Wang, Yuhang Han, Chuan Wu, Linfeng Zhang, Bill Shi

Staleness-Learning Rate Scaling Laws for Asynchronous RLHF

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arXiv:2607. 01083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-throughput RLHF systems often decouple rollout generation from policy optimization, leading to the use of stale rollouts during learner updates.

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