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20162022
most citedTraining language models to follow instructions with human feedback

4.3k citations · 4.5k across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2022★ 47 cited

Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators

William Saunders, Catherine Yeh, Jeff Wu +4

We fine-tune large language models to write natural language critiques (natural language critical comments) using behavioral cloning. On a topic-based summarization task, critiques…

cs.CL2022★ 4.3k cited

Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Long Ouyang, Jeff Wu, Xu Jiang +17

Making language models bigger does not inherently make them better at following a user's intent. For example, large language models can generate outputs that are untruthful, toxic,…

cs.CL2021★ 33 cited

WebGPT: Browser-assisted question-answering with human feedback

Reiichiro Nakano, Jacob Hilton, Suchir Balaji +15

We fine-tune GPT-3 to answer long-form questions using a text-based web-browsing environment, which allows the model to search and navigate the web. By setting up the task so that…

cs.CL2021★ 68 cited

Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback

Jeff Wu, Long Ouyang, Daniel M. Ziegler +4

A major challenge for scaling machine learning is training models to perform tasks that are very difficult or time-consuming for humans to evaluate. We present progress on this pro…

cs.CL2020★ 37 cited

Learning to summarize from human feedback

Nisan Stiennon, Long Ouyang, Jeff Wu +6

As language models become more powerful, training and evaluation are increasingly bottlenecked by the data and metrics used for a particular task. For example, summarization models…

cs.AI2017

Pedagogical learning

Long Ouyang, Michael C. Frank

A common assumption in machine learning is that training data are i.i.d. samples from some distribution. Processes that generate i.i.d. samples are, in a sense, uninformative---the…

cs.AI2016★ 10 cited

Practical optimal experiment design with probabilistic programs

Long Ouyang, Michael Henry Tessler, Daniel Ly +1

Scientists often run experiments to distinguish competing theories. This requires patience, rigor, and ingenuity - there is often a large space of possible experiments one could ru…