Rejection sampling and SFT

Rejection sampling and SFT

Model

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learned · not counted here

The model being fine-tuned: the paper says SFT fine-tunes the pre-trained language model.

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Direct evidence

§4.1.3: the reward model performs rejection sampling on human annotation prompts; with this data and other sources, including synthetic data, the pre-trained language model is fine-tuned with a standard cross-entropy loss on the target tokens, the loss masked on prompt tokens; learning rate 10⁻⁵ over 8.5K to 9K steps for the largest models.

sft · arXiv 2407.21783 / Llama3-Herd-2407.21783v3.pdf
Pinned revision v3 ↗ · p. 16