Summary of Forward Kl Regularized Preference Optimization For Aligning Diffusion Policies, by Zhao Shan et al.
Forward KL Regularized Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Policies
by Zhao Shan, Chenyou Fan, Shuang Qiu, Jiyuan Shi, Chenjia Bai
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 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 proposes a novel framework, Forward KL regularized Preference optimization for aligning Diffusion policies, to directly align diffusion policies with human preferences in various sequential decision-making tasks. By leveraging the expressiveness of diffusion models, the framework first trains a policy from an offline dataset and then optimizes it using preference data via direct preference learning. The forward KL regularization ensures that the optimized policy does not generate out-of-distribution actions. The authors conduct experiments on MetaWorld manipulation and D4RL tasks, showing that their method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of alignment with preferences. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how to make computers take better actions by using a type of machine learning called diffusion models. Currently, these models are not very good at following what humans want them to do. The researchers propose a new way to train these models so they can learn from human preferences and take more relevant actions. They tested their method on several tasks and found that it works better than previous methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Diffusion » Machine learning » Optimization » Regularization
