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Glossary · Use and training pipelines

DPO

Direct preference optimization: trains directly from preference pairs without a separately optimized reward-model-plus-RL loop. It changes the optimizer, not the measurement problem.

Defined in

Handbook · RegimeEvaluators inside training loopsRLHF is a pipeline, not an evaluator. Where the learned judge sits in RLHF, RLAIF, RLVR and DPO, and what it is exposed to.

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