The Past, Present and Better Future of Feedback Learning in Large Language Models for Subjective Human Preferences and Values (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Incorporating human feedback into Large Language Models is a welcome development, but it introduces new biases and challenges. |
| Approach: | They propose to survey 95 articles that use human feedback to steer, guide or tailor the behaviours of large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approaches are based on 95 articles primarily from the ACL and arXiv repositories and highlight five unresolved conceptual and practical challenges. |
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