HelpSteer3-Preference: Open Human-Annotated Preference Data across Diverse Tasks and Languages
Abstract
Preference datasets are essential for training general-domain, instruction-following language models with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Each subsequent data release raises expectations for future data collection, meaning there is a constant need to advance the quality and diversity of openly available preference data. To address this need, we introduce HelpSteer3-Preference, a permissively licensed (CC-BY-4.0), high-quality, human-annotated preference dataset comprising of over 40,000 samples. These samples span diverse real-world applications of large language models (LLMs), including tasks relating to STEM, coding and multilingual scenarios. Using HelpSteer3-Preference, we train Reward Models (RMs) that achieve top performance on RM-Bench (82.4%) and JudgeBench (73.7%). This represents a substantial improvement (~10% absolute) over the previously best-reported results from existing RMs. We demonstrate HelpSteer3-Preference can also be applied to train Generative RMs and how policy models can be aligned with RLHF using our RMs. Dataset (CC-BY-4.0): https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/HelpSteer3#preference Models (NVIDIA Open Model): https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/reward-models-68377c5955575f71fcc7a2a3
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.11475,
title = {HelpSteer3-Preference: Open Human-Annotated Preference Data across Diverse Tasks and Languages},
author = {Zhilin Wang and Jiaqi Zeng and Olivier Delalleau and Hoo-Chang Shin and Felipe Soares and Alexander Bukharin and Ellie Evans and Yi Dong and Oleksii Kuchaiev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11475},
year = {2025}
}
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