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---
title: "RLHF (Beta)"
description: "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is a method whereby a language model is optimized from data using human feedback."
---
### Overview
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is a method whereby a language model is optimized from data using human
feedback. Various methods include, but not limited to:
- Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) (not yet supported in axolotl)
- Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)
- Identity Preference Optimization (IPO)
### RLHF using Axolotl
>[!IMPORTANT]
>This is a BETA feature and many features are not fully implemented. You are encouraged to open new PRs to improve the integration and functionality.
The various RL training methods are implemented in trl and wrapped via axolotl. Below are various examples with how you can use various preference datasets to train models that use ChatML
#### DPO
```yaml
rl: dpo
datasets:
- path: Intel/orca_dpo_pairs
split: train
type: chatml.intel
- path: argilla/ultrafeedback-binarized-preferences
split: train
type: chatml
```
#### IPO
```yaml
rl: ipo
```
#### ORPO
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07691
```yaml
rl: orpo
orpo_alpha: 0.1
remove_unused_columns: false
chat_template: chatml
datasets:
- path: argilla/ultrafeedback-binarized-preferences-cleaned
type: chat_template.argilla
```
#### KTO
```yaml
rl: kto
rl_beta: 0.5
kto_desirable_weight: 0.2
remove_unused_columns: false
datasets:
- path: argilla/ultrafeedback-binarized-preferences-cleaned-kto
type: llama3.ultra
split: train
gradient_checkpointing: true
gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
use_reentrant: true
```
#### Using local dataset files
```yaml
datasets:
- ds_type: json
data_files:
- orca_rlhf.jsonl
split: train
type: chatml.intel
```
#### Trl autounwrap for peft
Trl supports autounwrapping peft models, so that a ref model does not need to be additionally loaded, leading to less VRAM needed. This is on by default. To turn it off, pass the following config.
```yaml
# load ref model when adapter training.
rl_adapter_ref_model: true
```