arXiv Machine Learning By Jing Dong, Yaoliang Yu, Pascal Pourpart

The Representation-Rationalizability Tradeoff in Reward Learning

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arXiv:2606. 00291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In RLHF, each training example contains a prompt $x$ and two candidate responses $y,y'$, and annotators provide pairwise preferences between these responses.

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