Understanding Direct Preference Optimization

A look at the “Direct Preference Optimization:
Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model” paper and its findings

This blog post was inspired by a discussion I recently had with some friends about the Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) paper. The discussion was lively and went over many important topics in LLMs and Machine Learning in general. Below is an expansion on some of those ideas and the concepts discussed in the paper.

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