dimitardanailov

Creating a Persistent Disk

Create a new instance

gcloud compute instances create gcelab --zone us-central1-c

Create a new persistent disk

jefftangx

'''
author:
    @tangjeff0
    https://www.notion.so/tangjeff0/Public-Home-0e2636bd409b454ea64079ad8213491f

inspired by: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/p-a-r-a-iii-building-an-idea-generator-400347ef3bb6/
with help from: https://medium.com/@jamiealexandre/introducing-notion-py-an-unofficial-python-api-wrapper-for-notion-so-603700f92369

credits:
    @jamiealexandre

tallguyjenks

# To permanently cache the credentials
git config --global credential.helper store

# To ignore files that could cause issues across different workspaces
touch .gitignore

echo ".obsidian/cache
.trash/
.DS_Store" > .gitignore

yoavg

Reinforcement Learning for Language Models

Yoav Goldberg, April 2023.

Why RL?

With the release of the ChatGPT model and followup large language models (LLMs), there was a lot of discussion of the importance of "RLHF training", that is, "reinforcement learning from human feedback". I was puzzled for a while as to why RL (Reinforcement Learning) is better than learning from demonstrations (a.k.a supervised learning) for training language models. Shouldn't learning from demonstrations (or, in language model terminology "instruction fine tuning", learning to immitate human written answers) be sufficient? I came up with a theoretical argument that was somewhat convincing. But I came to realize there is an additional argumment which not only supports the case of RL training, but also requires it, in particular for models like ChatGPT. This additional argument is spelled out in (the first half of) a talk by John Schulman from OpenAI. This post pretty much