Geek Out Time: PPO vs GRPO on Google Colab: Two Ways to Align Language Models

Introduction

When it comes to aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values, reward modeling is key. Two notable methods are:

This geek-out time, we explore both, simulating how they score outputs without training, to make their differences clear and concrete.

Background

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