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Step 2 reward model finetuning: how is the loss computed?

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Hi there,
I notice that in step 2, the reported scores (i.e. chosen_mean_scores and reject_mean_scores) are the same as the description:

... either the end token of the sequence or the first padding token ...

But in the loss computation, the implementation count on the mean log_sigmoid score among all divergence tokens, not the last ones. Is this an intended feature? In Anthropic's paper "A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment", they only use the last token to compute reward, which seems like a more standard approach.

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Start by locating the Step 2 reward-model finetuning loss implementation and the code producing chosen_mean_scores and reject_mean_scores. Compare how divergence tokens are selected and aggregated with the issue’s end/padding-token description and the cited Anthropic approach. Done when the intended aggregation is established and the implementation or issue documentation clearly reflects that decision.

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