Summary of Comparing Bad Apples to Good Oranges: Aligning Large Language Models Via Joint Preference Optimization, by Hritik Bansal et al.
Comparing Bad Apples to Good Oranges: Aligning Large Language Models via Joint Preference Optimization
by Hritik Bansal, Ashima Suvarna, Gantavya Bhatt, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang, Aditya Grover
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Mar 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 A novel approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is proposed, departing from traditional pairwise comparisons. Instead, the authors introduce Joint Preference Optimization (JPO), a method that considers both instruction and response pairs to elicit nuanced human preferences. Compared to conventional DPO-based optimization, JPO-trained LLMs outperform their counterparts by 5.2% and 3.3% in summarization and open-ended dialogue tasks, respectively. This breakthrough suggests that considering joint preferences can significantly enhance the alignment of LLMs with human behavior. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) are really smart computers that can understand and generate human-like text. Right now, we’re teaching them to be more like us by showing them lots of examples of how humans communicate. But there’s a problem – we’re only looking at how they do in one specific situation, which isn’t very realistic. What if we asked the computer to make decisions based on the whole conversation, not just one part? This is what some clever researchers did, and it made a big difference! They found that when computers are trained this way, they get better at understanding what humans want them to do. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Optimization * Summarization
