Policy
In RL, a policy maps states to a distribution over actions. In LLM alignment, the policy is the language model itself — sampling tokens as actions.
RLHF optimizes this policy against a reward model with a KL penalty to a reference policy.
In RL, a policy maps states to a distribution over actions. In LLM alignment, the policy is the language model itself — sampling tokens as actions.
RLHF optimizes this policy against a reward model with a KL penalty to a reference policy.