The Asymptotics of Language Model Alignment with Memory

arXiv:2610.01828 · cs.CL, cs.IT, math.IT · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.IT, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Alignment — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Language Model — 12× in this paper
• Reward Function — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment Methods — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
• Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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