Summary of Simultaneous Reward Distillation and Preference Learning: Get You a Language Model Who Can Do Both, by Abhijnan Nath et al.
Simultaneous Reward Distillation and Preference Learning: Get You a Language Model Who Can Do Both
by Abhijnan Nath, Changsoo Jung, Ethan Seefried, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Oct 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 proposes a new approach to aligning language models with human preferences using Direct Reward Distillation and Optimization (DRDO). Unlike traditional methods that rely on separate reward models or direct alignment techniques like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), DRDO simultaneously models rewards and preferences. This allows for more robust policies that can handle noisy or uncertain preference signals, as well as out-of-distribution settings. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of DRDO using the Ultrafeedback and TL;DR datasets, showing that it surpasses existing methods like DPO and e-DPO in terms of expected rewards. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to make language models behave better by matching what humans want them to do. Right now, most approaches use separate reward systems or try to directly match human preferences. But these methods can be tricky because they’re based on uncertain human judgments. This new approach, called DRDO, combines both rewards and preferences into one system. It’s like a two-for-one deal that helps language models make better decisions even when humans aren’t sure what they want. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Distillation » Optimization
