Safety, Alignment & InterpretabilityStanford (Rafailov et al.)Stanford University

DPO

DPO

Why it matters

Optimizes directly on preference pairs without a reward model or PPO, popularizing open-source alignment

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290

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