--- title: The third New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon | daily.dev description: A recap of the third New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon, featuring three projects: (1) Pink Elephants Pt 3, which attempted to train a model via ILQL using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-third-new-england-rlhf-hackers-hackathon-auboxol2s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The third New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon | daily.dev og:description: A recap of the third New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon, featuring three projects: (1) Pink Elephants Pt 3, which attempted to train a model via ILQL using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-third-new-england-rlhf-hackers-hackathon-auboxol2s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AUbOxol2S.png og:image:alt: The third 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 third New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon **[EleutherAI](https://daily.dev/sources/eleutherai)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of the third New England RLHF Hackers Hackathon, featuring three projects: (1) Pink Elephants Pt 3, which attempted to train a model via ILQL using trlX but struggled with hyperparameter convergence, proposing future use of DPO and ReST; (2) Exploring Iterated RLHF, which replaced human feedback with a gold-standard reward model (UltraRM-13b) to study LLM and reward model co-evolution; and (3) Visualizing the Reward Model via QDAIF, which adapted the QDAIF technique using a DeBERTa reward model and llama-70b to map reward landscapes across poem types and tones, finding sonnets and reflective tones scored lowest. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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