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Rl4Lms

RL4LMs is a modular Python library for fine-tuning language models with reinforcement learning and human-preference reward signals. It provides on-policy algorithms, reward functions, metrics, datasets, text-generation environments and language-model actor-critic policies.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use RL4LMs when a language-model training experiment needs configurable reinforcement-learning components and task-specific reward signals.

Who it is for

  • Developers building custom language-model training workflows.
  • Researchers experimenting with reinforcement learning objectives for NLP and text generation.

Documented uses

  • Fine-tune a language model using a chosen reward function.
  • Compare on-policy methods such as PPO, NLPO, A2C and TRPO for text-generation tasks.
  • Configure training data, tokenizer, environment and algorithm through YAML.
  • Customize datasets or reward functions for an NLP experiment.
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Requirements & limits

The project is a public GitHub repository with an Apache-2.0 license; local installation is documented through pip.

  • The documented workflow is Python-based and involves repository installation and YAML configuration.
  • The library includes PPO, NLPO, A2C and TRPO, with causal and sequence-to-sequence language-model policies.
  • A specific example combines T5-base, CNN/DailyMail summarization, PPO and ROUGE-1.
  • CoreNLP libraries are optional prerequisites for certain metrics, including SPICE.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Set up RL4LMs locally

Clone the project and install the library in editable mode.

Before you start

  • A Python development environment.
  • Git and pip.

Steps

  1. Clone the RL4LMs repository.

  2. Change into the repository directory.

  3. Run pip install -e . to install the project in editable mode.

Expected outcome

The repository's documented local installation procedure is complete.

Guide limitations

  • This covers installation only; it does not verify a training run or model setup.
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