Summary of Cal-dpo: Calibrated Direct Preference Optimization For Language Model Alignment, by Teng Xiao et al.
Cal-DPO: Calibrated Direct Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment
by Teng Xiao, Yige Yuan, Huaisheng Zhu, Mingxiao Li, Vasant G Honavar
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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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 addresses the challenge of aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preference data, aiming to optimize their performance in tasks such as dialogue generation and question answering. Building upon contrastive preference optimization, which has shown promise in aligning LLMs with available preference data by optimizing the implicit reward associated with a policy, the authors propose a novel algorithm called calibrated direct preference optimization (Cal-DPO). Cal-DPO calibrates the implicit reward to ensure that the learned rewards are comparable in scale to the ground-truth rewards, leading to substantial improvements in alignment with human preferences. Theoretical advantages of Cal-DPO over existing approaches are demonstrated through experiments on various standard benchmarks, showcasing remarkable improvements in off-the-shelf methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) need to be aligned with human preferences to perform well in tasks like dialogue generation and question answering. One way to do this is by using a method called contrastive preference optimization. However, this approach has limitations because it focuses on the relative values of implicit rewards rather than their actual values. To solve this problem, scientists have developed an algorithm called Cal-DPO (calibrated direct preference optimization). This algorithm calibrates the implicit reward so that the learned rewards are comparable to the true rewards. This leads to better alignment with human preferences. The researchers tested Cal-DPO on various benchmarks and found that it significantly improved the performance of existing methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Optimization » Question answering
