Simple Preference Optimization for LLM alignment. Reference-free alternative to DPO with better performance (+6.4 points on AlpacaEval 2.0). No reference model needed, more efficient than DPO. Use for preference alignment when want simpler, faster training than DPO/PPO.
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The skill exposes the agent to untrusted, user-generated content from public third-party sources, creating a risk of indirect prompt injection. This includes browsing arbitrary URLs, reading social media posts or forum comments, and analyzing content from unknown websites.
The required training workflow loads outsider-authored free-text preference datasets from public HuggingFace datasets (e.g., `HuggingFaceH4/ultrafeedback_binarized`, `argilla/...`) whose `prompt/chosen/rejected` fields become readable text for the training pipeline at runtime, which is then ingested into the LLM context during forward passes.
The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.
The README's installation instructs "git clone https://github.com/huggingface/alignment-handbook.git" followed by "python -m pip install .", which fetches remote code and executes it during setup (https://github.com/huggingface/alignment-handbook.git).
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