preference

A look at the “Direct Preference Optimization:Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model” paper and its findingsImage by the Author via DALL-EThis 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.Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has become the way that…

Boost the performance of your supervised fine-tuned modelsImage by authorPre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) can only perform next-token prediction, making them unable to answer questions. This is why these base models are then fine-tuned on pairs of instructions and answers to act as helpful assistants. However, this process can still be flawed: fine-tuned LLMs can be biased, toxic, harmful, etc. This is where Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) comes into play.RLHF provides different answers to the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Slow motion is a popular style tactic for short videos on social media. Marketing researcher Anika Stuppy of Tilburg University shows that slow motion increases the number of likes and views of videos and stimulates brands' preference, choice and willingness to pay. There are conditions to its use, however. The research helps marketers use slow motion more effectively.…

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Predicted probability of agreeing with explanations. Credit: Gender, Work & Organization (2023). DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13076 Fewer women pursue careers in physics than biology, and scientists from around the world believe these differences come down to personal preferences, according to a new Rice University study of international scientists. The study's researchers warn that merely chalking this imbalance up to individual…

Financial Times: Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain Financial Times: Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to…

Total fertility rate in Thailand and comparison of sex ratios at birth in Thailand vis-à-vis China, Vietnam and the world average, 1950–2020. Sources: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, custom data acquired via website. Sex ratios at birth (as in male births per 100 female births) in Thailand, China, Vietnam and the world average are plotted on the primary vertical axis…

The I-T department's draft rules on valuation of funding in unlisted startups for calculating 'angel tax' will bridge the gap between the rules outlined in FEMA and the Income Tax, but the 10 per cent safe harbour which is proposed for equity investment should be extended to convertible preference shares, experts said. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on May 26 issued draft rules providing more flexibility for valuation of equity investments made in unlisted startups. For non-resident investors the valuation…

The next time you whisper sweet-nothings into someone's ear, you might want to target their left side.Neuroscientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne University Hospital and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland have discovered a strange bias in our perception of pleasing voices.According to the brain scans of 13 adults, positive human sounds, like laughter, trigger stronger neural activity in the brain's auditory system when they are heard from the left-hand side, suggesting…

Fraction of the respondents from West and East who believe that the financial security is the responsibility of the state. Unbalanced sample. Credit: German Economic Review (2023). DOI: 10.1515/ger-2022-0042 Even after 27 years of reunification, East Germans are still more likely to be pro-state support than their Western counterparts, a new study published in German Economic Review finds. Of the sample studied, 48% of…