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Stanford CME295 Transformers and LLMs | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 5 - LLM tuning

Stanford Online: University Courses & Lectures · Nov 12, 2026 · 1:54:26

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For more information about Stanford’s graduate programs, visit: https://online.stanford.edu/graduate-educationOctober 31, 2025This lecture covers: • Preference tuning• RLHF overview• Reward modeling• RL approaches (PPO and variants)• DPOTo follow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cme295.stanford.edu/syllabus/Chapters:00:00:00 Introduction00:04:50 Preference tuning00:11:31 Data collection00:17:43 RLHF overview00:28:24 Reward model00:29:46 Bradley-Terry formulation00:46:02 Reinforcement learning00:53:54 PPO00:57:56 Advantage, value function01:03:39 PPO variants: Clip, KL-penalty01:16:20 Challenges01:19:58 On-policy vs off-policy01:22:43 Best-of-N01:29:47 DPOUploaded 14-11-25Afshine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.Shervine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.View the course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOCXd21gf0CF4xr35yINeOy
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