Summary of Provably Robust Dpo: Aligning Language Models with Noisy Feedback, by Sayak Ray Chowdhury et al.
Provably Robust DPO: Aligning Language Models with Noisy Feedback
by Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Anush Kini, Nagarajan Natarajan
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Mar 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 explores the limitations of learning from preference-based feedback in aligning language models with human interests. Despite impressive capabilities across various tasks, these models rely on high-quality human preference data, which is often noisy and incorrect. The authors highlight the need for a deeper understanding of how to mitigate the effects of such noise on model accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research looks at ways to improve language models by teaching them from people’s preferences. Right now, these models are only as good as the feedback they get, but that feedback is often wrong or unclear. The goal is to figure out why this matters and how we can make our language models better even when the feedback is messy. |
