Summary of Inverse-rlignment: Large Language Model Alignment From Demonstrations Through Inverse Reinforcement Learning, by Hao Sun et al.
Inverse-RLignment: Large Language Model Alignment from Demonstrations through Inverse Reinforcement Learning
by Hao Sun, Mihaela van der Schaar
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses the crucial problem of aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance their safety and utility. Existing methods based on preference datasets face challenges such as noisy labels, high annotation costs, and privacy concerns. The authors introduce Alignment from Demonstrations (AfD), a novel approach leveraging high-quality demonstration data to overcome these challenges. AfD is formalized within a sequential decision-making framework, highlighting its unique challenge of missing reward signals. By drawing insights from forward and inverse reinforcement learning, the authors introduce divergence minimization objectives for AfD. The paper also explores the mass-covering and mode-seeking behaviors of various approaches, explaining when and why certain methods are superior. To validate their key insights, the authors propose a computationally efficient algorithm that extrapolates over a tailored reward model for AfD. Experiments on the Harmless and Helpful tasks demonstrate the strong empirical performance of the proposed method while maintaining simplicity. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making large language models better by aligning them with what we want them to do. Right now, existing methods have big problems like bad data, expensive to make, and privacy concerns. The authors come up with a new way called Alignment from Demonstrations (AfD) that uses high-quality examples to solve these issues. They explain AfD using a framework that makes decisions one step at a time, pointing out that it’s hard because it doesn’t know what reward it should get. By looking at how other methods work, the authors show when and why certain approaches are better than others. To test their ideas, they suggest an efficient algorithm that makes adjustments based on rewards. They try this method on two tasks called Harmless and Helpful and find that it works well while being simple. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Reinforcement learning
