| Challenge: | Using textual feedback, language models can be trained to learn from textual inputs. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach that aligns language models with user preferences expressed in text. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms PPO on toxicity reduction, summarization, and dialog response tasks while achieving the same performance with only 20% of the samples. |
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