Aligning Large Language Models with Human Preferences: DPO, PPO, and GRPO in Practice

From Pre-training to Post-training Large language models are usually built in two major stages: Pre-training: The model learns to predict the next token given a prefix, acquiring broad linguistic competence. Post-training: After the model can "speak", we teach it to "think". This stage splits into Supervised Fine-Tuning (S ...

Posted on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:42:31 +0000 by tequila