Summary of Alignment with Preference Optimization Is All You Need For Llm Safety, by Reda Alami et al.
Alignment with Preference Optimization Is All You Need for LLM Safety
by Reda Alami, Ali Khalifa Almansoori, Ahmed Alzubaidi, Mohamed El Amine Seddik, Mugariya Farooq, Hakim Hacid
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 demonstrates the effectiveness of preference optimization methods in enhancing large language model (LLM) safety. By applying various alignment techniques to the Falcon 11B model using safety datasets, the authors achieve a significant boost in global safety score, outperforming state-of-the-art models on toxicity benchmarks and achieving average scores in adversarial settings below 0.07. However, this improvement comes at the cost of reduced general capabilities, particularly in math, suggesting a trade-off between safety and performance. The optimal method for balancing safety and performance is identified as noise contrastive alignment (Safe-NCA). The study shows that alignment techniques can be sufficient for building safe and robust models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making sure language models are safe to use. It does this by using special techniques to align the model’s output with what we consider “safe”. This makes the model much safer, but it also makes it a bit worse at doing other things like math problems. The best technique for balancing safety and performance is found to be noise contrastive alignment (Safe-NCA). Overall, the study shows that using these techniques can help build safe language models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Large language model » Optimization
