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Instruction hierarchy training

Supervised training on conflicting messages to teach the model to prioritize system instructions over developer instructions and developer instructions over user instructions.

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We collected examples of these different roles of messages conflicting with each other, and supervised gpt-oss to follow the instructions in the system message over developer messages, and instructions in developer messages over user messages.

usedpost trainingin gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20bOpenAI

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Other methods under post-training :: supervised fine-tuning.