Nat Lambert says his RLHF book is finished after a year of nights and weekends
dejavucoder · x · 2026-07-21
Nat Lambert says his new book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, is finished.
- He describes it as the book he wished existed when he was learning to fine-tune, align, and post-train models after ChatGPT.
- The material has been assembled from his own experience building Olmo.
- He says the project was written on nights and weekends starting in 2024, with the goal of transferring practical intuitions into book form.
Related event: Nat Lambert Completes RLHF Book with 10+ Hour Course(11 posts)→
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