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RLHF from Scratch

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Hands-on RLHF tutorial and minimal code examples. This repo is focused on teaching the main steps of RLHF with compact, readable code rather than providing a production system.

What the code implements (short)

src/ppo/ppo_trainer.py — a simple PPO training loop to update a language model policy.

— a simple PPO training loop to update a language model policy. src/ppo/core_utils.py — helper routines (rollout/processing, advantage/return computation, reward wrappers).

— helper routines (rollout/processing, advantage/return computation, reward wrappers). src/ppo/parse_args.py — CLI/experiment argument parsing for training runs.

— CLI/experiment argument parsing for training runs. tutorial.ipynb — the notebook that ties the pieces together (theory, small experiments, and examples that call the code above).

What's covered in the notebook (brief)

RLHF pipeline overview: preference data → reward model → policy optimization.

Short demonstrations of reward modeling, PPO-based fine-tuning, and comparisons.

Practical notes and small runnable code snippets to reproduce toy experiments.

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