Sebastian Raschka 5/12/2024

How Good Are the Latest Open LLMs? And Is DPO Better Than PPO?

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This article provides a technical review of four major open-source LLM releases from April 2024: Mixtral 8x22B, Meta's Llama 3, Microsoft's Phi-3, and Apple's OpenELM. It compares their architectures and performance, and includes a detailed analysis of reinforcement learning methods for LLM alignment, specifically examining whether Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is superior to Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO).

How Good Are the Latest Open LLMs? And Is DPO Better Than PPO?

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