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Your preference data has low annotator agreement and noisy labels. How do you measure and fix preference-data quality?

A reward model is only as good as its labels, and human preference labels are noisy and inconsistent. The signal is measuring inter-annotator agreement and the concrete moves that lift label quality.

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A reward model is only as good as its labels, and human preference labels are noisy and inconsistent. The signal is measuring inter-annotator agreement and the concrete moves that lift label quality.

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