@_arohan_@zacharynado One practical/implementation advantage is that shampoo works in grad space and that’s exposed by every library without fiddling. Is this why shampoo gets played with so much more than KFAC or is it also better?
Would love @_arohan_ s take :)
For Reinforcement Learning to be successful on top of LLMs, it is critical to have a very powerful and accurate reward model. Reward in most language tasks isn't as clearly defined as, say, in chess, where the winning condition is a simple computation.
Generative reward models are the most powerful class as they are themselves general. It's great to see how the best LLMs are starting to top this important benchmark!
huggingface.co/spaces/allenai…
Gemini 1.5 Pro when zero-shot prompted to perform an LLM-as-a-judge task ranks 1st when compared to other Generative RMs and 2nd best overall vs other dedicated RMs: huggingface.co/spaces/allenai… (make sure to click on the Generative checkbox).
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