Summary of Una: Unifying Alignments Of Rlhf/ppo, Dpo and Kto by a Generalized Implicit Reward Function, By Zhichao Wang et al.
UNA: Unifying Alignments of RLHF/PPO, DPO and KTO by a Generalized Implicit Reward Function
by Zhichao Wang, Bin Bi, Can Huang, Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Zixu James Zhu, Sitaram Asur, Na Claire Cheng
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Aug 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 A novel approach to improving large language models (LLMs) by addressing undesired responses generated during pre-training is proposed. By leveraging alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), DPO, and KTO, the paper aims to develop a more effective method for generating desired outputs. However, existing alignment techniques have limitations, including complexity, time-consuming training processes, and memory intensity. To overcome these limitations, the proposed approach employs DPO to map an optimal policy to a reward, simplifying the RLHF training process. Nevertheless, this approach has its own limitations, such as being restricted to pairwise preference data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A big problem with large language models is that they can generate unwanted responses even after being trained on huge amounts of text. To solve this issue, researchers have been working on alignment techniques like Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and a few others. However, these methods have some major drawbacks, such as being super complex and time-consuming to train. A new approach proposes using a simpler method called DPO to map an optimal policy to a reward. This can be helpful, but it also has its own limitations, like only working well with certain types of data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Reinforcement learning » Rlhf
