---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
datasets:
- berkeley-nest/Nectar
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
tags:
- reward model
- RLHF
- RLAIF
---
# Model Card for Starling-RM-7B-alpha

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Starling-RM-7B-alpha is a reward model trained from [Llama2-7B-Chat](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf). Following the method of training reward model in [the instructGPT paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155), we remove the last layer of Llama2-7B Chat, 
and concatenate a linear layer that outputs scalar for any pair of input prompt and response. We train the reward model with preference dataset [berkeley-nest/Nectar](https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest), 
with the K-wise maximum likelihood estimator proposed in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11270). The reward model outputs a scalar for any given prompt and response. A response that is more helpful and 
less harmful will get the highest reward score. Note that since the preference dataset [berkeley-nest/Nectar](https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest) is based on GPT-4 preference, the reward model is likely to be biased
towards GPT-4's own preference, including longer responses and certain response format. 



- **Developed by:** Banghua Zhu * , Evan Frick * , Tianhao Wu * , Hanlin Zhu and Jiantao Jiao.
- **Model type:** Reward Model for RLHF
- **License:** Non commercial license
- **Finetuned from model:** [Llama2-7B-Chat](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf)


### Model Sources

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- **Blog:** https://starling.cs.berkeley.edu/
- **Paper:** Coming soon!
- **Code:** Coming soon!
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## Uses

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Please use the following code for running inference with the reward model.

```
# Load in the reward model


```



## License
The dataset, model and online demo is a research preview intended for non-commercial use only, subject to the data distillation [License](https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md) of LLaMA, [Terms of Use](https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use) of the data generated by OpenAI, and [Privacy Practices](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sharegpt-share-your-chatg/daiacboceoaocpibfodeljbdfacokfjb) of ShareGPT. Please contact us if you find any potential violation.


## Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Wei-Lin Chiang from Berkeley for detailed feedback of the blog and the projects. We would like to thank the [LMSYS Organization](https://lmsys.org/) for their support of [lmsys-chat-1M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmsys/lmsys-chat-1m) dataset, evaluation and online demo. We would like to thank the open source community for their efforts in providing the datasets and base models we used to develope the project, including but not limited to Anthropic, Llama, Mistral, Hugging Face H4, LMSYS, OpenChat, OpenBMB, Flan and ShareGPT.

**✉ Correspondence to:** Banghua Zhu (banghua@berkeley.edu).

## Citation
```
@misc{starling2023,
    title = {Starling-7B: Improving LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF},
    url = {},
    author = {Zhu, Banghua and Frick, Evan and Wu, Tianhao and Zhu, Hanlin and Jiao, Jiantao},
    month = {November},
    year = {2023}
}
```