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Fine-Tuned Reinforcement Learning

Fine-Tuned Reinforcement Learning adapts a pre-trained policy or model to a new task or behavioral objective using reinforcement signals — including human feedback — rather than retraining from scratch. Popularized by RLHF, it is the core technique behind aligning large language models and adapting deep RL agents to specialized environments with minimal additional data.

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Fine-Tuned Reinforcement Learning (Policy Adaptation via Fine-Tuning)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / deep-learning
  • Ouyang, L., Wu, J., Jiang, X., Almeida, D., Wainwright, C., Mishkin, P., Zhang, C., Agarwal, S., Slama, K., Ray, A., Schulman, J., Hilton, J., Kelton, F., Miller, L., Simens, M., Askell, A., Welinder, P., Christiano, P., Leike, J., & Lowe, R. (2022). Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35, 27730–27744. · URL
  • Christiano, P., Leike, J., Brown, T. B., Martic, M., Legg, S., & Amodei, D. (2017). Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30. · URL
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Taxonomic bucketFine-Tuned BERT-based Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketFine-Tuned Transformermachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketReinforcement Learningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSelf-supervised Reinforcement Learningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketTransfer Learning with Reinforcement Learningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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