Summary of Pad: Personalized Alignment Of Llms at Decoding-time, by Ruizhe Chen et al.
PAD: Personalized Alignment of LLMs at Decoding-Time
by Ruizhe Chen, Xiaotian Zhang, Meng Luo, Wenhao Chai, Zuozhu Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces Personalized Alignment at Decoding-time (PAD), a novel framework that aligns large language model (LLM) outputs with diverse personalized preferences during inference phase. PAD decouples text generation from personalized preferences, using a unique personalized reward modeling strategy to generate token-level rewards. These rewards guide the decoding process, dynamically tailoring base model predictions to personalized preferences. Experimental results demonstrate PAD outperforms existing training-based alignment methods in aligning with diverse preferences and shows generalizability to unseen preferences during training. The paper also showcases scalability across different base models. This work advances LLM capabilities for real-time applications, presenting a significant step forward in personalized LLM alignment. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research introduces a new way to make language models (computer programs that understand human language) work better with people’s individual preferences. Normally, this requires training the model on lots of data and is very computationally expensive. The new method, called PAD, does this during the process of generating text instead of before. This makes it much faster and more efficient. The researchers tested PAD and found that it worked really well with different types of people’s preferences and was able to generate text that matched their individual tastes. This is important because language models are used in many real-life applications, like chatbots and virtual assistants. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Inference » Large language model » Text generation » Token
