--- title: The first New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon | daily.dev description: Researchers from the New England RLHF Hackers (NERH) group held a hackathon at Brown University in September 2023, producing three research directions: (1) a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-first-new-england-rlhf-hackers-hackathon-n7no7seiq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The first New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon | daily.dev og:description: Researchers from the New England RLHF Hackers (NERH) group held a hackathon at Brown University in September 2023, producing three research directions: (1) a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-first-new-england-rlhf-hackers-hackathon-n7no7seiq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/N7nO7seIq.png og:image:alt: The first New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The first New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon **[EleutherAI](https://daily.dev/sources/eleutherai)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers from the New England RLHF Hackers (NERH) group held a hackathon at Brown University in September 2023, producing three research directions: (1) a heuristic framework for directly evaluating reward models using an ensemble of classifiers for undesirable attributes like harmfulness and unhelpfulness; (2) a fact-based reward model that uses document retrieval from sources like Wikipedia and Stack Exchange combined with a logician LLM to score factual accuracy; and (3) an RLAIF approach to the 'pink elephant problem,' using ILQL to train language models to avoid generating responses about specific topics (demonstrated with Ubuntu as the restricted topic). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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