Policy Filtration for RLHF to Mitigate Noise in Reward Models
Chuheng Zhang, Wei Shen, Li Zhao, Xuyun Zhang, Xiaolong Xu, Wanchun Dou, Jiang Bian
Abstract
We use a fine-tuned policy to generate 10 responses for each of the 164 prompts in the HumanEval dataset and use a reward model trained with the common recipe to generate their rewards. We group the responses with similar rewards and calculate the average of their actual scores (i.e., the average correctness), indicating each group by one point. To evaluate the reliability of the reward model, we repeat the process ten times corresponding to the ten lines.
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