Summary of Self-supervised Preference Optimization: Enhance Your Language Model with Preference Degree Awareness, by Jian Li et al.
Self-supervised Preference Optimization: Enhance Your Language Model with Preference Degree Awareness
by Jian Li, Haojing Huang, Yujia Zhang, Pengfei Xu, Xi Chen, Rui Song, Lida Shi, Jingwen Wang, Hao Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 for optimizing large language models (LLMs) using human feedback, addressing the limitation of existing methods that overlook varying preference degrees. The Self-supervised Preference Optimization (SPO) approach combines a self-supervised preference degree loss with an alignment loss to improve LLMs’ understanding of human preferences. SPO is shown to be effective in integrating with existing preference optimization methods and achieving state-of-the-art performance on two widely used datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research aims to make language models better at understanding what people like or dislike about certain responses. Currently, some methods use a binary approach (like or dislike) but don’t take into account how much someone likes or dislikes something. The new method, called SPO, tries to address this issue by creating a system that can learn from itself and improve its ability to understand human preferences. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Optimization » Self supervised
