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Sorry but I don't follow your logic. Are you claiming that reward models that aren't curated by humans perform as well as ones that are?

Then what is a reward model's function according to you?



I'm claiming exactly what I wrote: That there is no inherent reason why a human curated one needs to be better.


In reinforcement learning and related fields, a _reward model_ is a function that assigns a scalar value (a reward) to a given state, representing how desirable it is. You're at liberty to have compound states: for an example, a trajectory (often called tau) or a state action pair (typically represented by s and a).




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