Summary of Improving Context-aware Preference Modeling For Language Models, by Silviu Pitis et al.
Improving Context-Aware Preference Modeling for Language Models
by Silviu Pitis, Ziang Xiao, Nicolas Le Roux, Alessandro Sordoni
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 proposes an innovative approach to finetuning language models by addressing the challenges of natural language processing. The authors recognize that direct preference feedback is uninterpretable, incomplete, or inconsistent, making it difficult for models to learn from human preferences. To overcome these limitations, they introduce a two-step preference modeling procedure that first resolves under-specification by selecting a context and then evaluates preference with respect to the chosen context. By decomposing reward modeling error into these two steps, the authors suggest that supervising both context and context-specific preference can align models with diverse human preferences more effectively. To achieve this, they provide context-conditioned preference datasets and accompanying experiments demonstrating the benefits of context-aware preference modeling. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computers understand what we want them to do by giving them better instructions. Right now, it’s hard for computers to learn from people because the way people give instructions is unclear or incomplete. The authors came up with a new way to help computers by first figuring out what kind of situation they’re in (like a specific topic) and then asking them to make a choice based on that context. They created special datasets to test their idea and found that it actually works better than previous methods. This could be useful for making computers more helpful and understanding. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Natural language processing
