Summary of Orthogonal Finetuning For Direct Preference Optimization, by Chenxu Yang et al.
Orthogonal Finetuning for Direct Preference Optimization
by Chenxu Yang, Ruipeng Jia, Naibin Gu, Zheng Lin, Siyuan Chen, Chao Pang, Weichong Yin, Yu Sun, Hua Wu, Weiping Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 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 The paper presents a novel approach to preference optimization using the DPO algorithm. The proposed method, called RoPO (Weight-Rotated Preference Optimization), incorporates regularization from the perspective of weight updating to curb overfitting and preserve knowledge encoded in neuron angles. This is achieved by conducting rotational and magnitude-stretching updates on weight parameters to maintain hyperspherical energy invariant. The paper demonstrates that RoPO outperforms DPO, achieving up to 10 points improvement on MT-Bench and 2.8 points on AlpacaEval 2, while increasing generation diversity by an average of 6 points. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is about a new way to optimize preferences using the DPO algorithm. The problem with previous methods was that they overfitted on certain samples, which means they became too specialized and lost their ability to generalize. To fix this, the researchers introduced a new approach called RoPO, which uses a special type of update to keep the neural network’s weights in check. This helps preserve knowledge learned during training and prevents overfitting. The results show that RoPO outperforms DPO and generates more diverse outputs. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Neural network * Optimization * Overfitting * Regularization
