Retaining by Doing: The Role of On-Policy Data in Mitigating Forgetting
NeutralArtificial Intelligence
- Recent research highlights the importance of on-policy data in mitigating catastrophic forgetting in language models (LMs) during post-training adaptations. The study compares two methods, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL), revealing that RL consistently results in less forgetting across various LM families and tasks, while maintaining or improving performance.
- This development is significant as it provides insights into optimizing language model training processes, potentially enhancing their adaptability and performance in diverse applications, which is crucial for developers and researchers in the AI field.
- The findings contribute to ongoing discussions about the effectiveness of different training methodologies in AI, particularly in the context of machine unlearning and the evolving capabilities of LMs. The exploration of task representations and the impact of reinforcement learning further underscore the need for innovative approaches in AI model training.
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