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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.10862/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.10862/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback — mentioned by jefftk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35150646</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2109.10862:35150646</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:51:01 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Reinforcement learning in general didn&amp;#x27;t come out of AI alignment work, but RHLF in particular did. The initial idea and paper [1] were from AI alignment folks, as was most of the later development [2][3][4][5]. Overview: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/vwu4kegAEZTBtpT6p/thoug... [1] Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741 [2] Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08593 [3] Learning to summarize from human feedback https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01325 [4] Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.10862/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback — mentioned by ggnore7452</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424973</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2109.10862:34424973</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:43:38 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;there is actually a paper by OpenAI themselves on summarizing long document. essentially, break a longer text into smaller chunks, and run a multi-stage sequential summarization. each chunk uses a trailing window of previous chunk as context, and run this recursively. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10862 did a rough implementation myself, works well for articles even 20k tokens. but kind slow because all the additional overlapping runs required. (and more costly)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.10862/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Recursively Summarizing Books with Human Feedback — mentioned by djoldman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644486</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2109.10862:28644486</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:19:25 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.10862.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2109.10862/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
