Summary of Filtered Direct Preference Optimization, by Tetsuro Morimura et al.
Filtered Direct Preference Optimization
by Tetsuro Morimura, Mitsuki Sakamoto, Yuu Jinnai, Kenshi Abe, Kaito Ariu
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 The paper investigates the impact of text quality on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) models optimized with direct preference optimization (DPO). The authors confirm that text quality significantly influences model performance, particularly for DPO-based RLHF. They propose an extension to DPO, filtered direct preference optimization (fDPO), which uses a trained reward model to monitor and discard low-quality texts during training. Experimental results show that fDPO enhances final model performance. This research has implications for the development of language models aligned with human preferences. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how well language models work when they’re trained on feedback from humans. They find out that the quality of the text used to train these models matters a lot, especially when using a method called direct preference optimization (DPO). The researchers then come up with a new way to improve this process, called filtered DPO, which gets rid of bad texts and keeps good ones. This makes the language models better at understanding what humans want. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Reinforcement learning from human feedback » Rlhf
