CURATRON: Complete and Robust Preference Data for Rigorous Alignment of Large Language Models

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Son The, Naresh, Niranjan Uma, Tulabandhula, Theja
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author Nguyen, Son The
Naresh, Niranjan Uma
Tulabandhula, Theja
author_facet Nguyen, Son The
Naresh, Niranjan Uma
Tulabandhula, Theja
contents This paper addresses the challenges of aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values via preference learning (PL), focusing on incomplete and corrupted data in preference datasets. We propose a novel method for robustly and completely recalibrating values within these datasets to enhance LLMs' resilience against the issues. In particular, we devise a guaranteed polynomial time ranking algorithm that robustifies several existing models, such as the classic Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) (Bradley and Terry, 1952) model and certain generalizations of it. To the best of our knowledge, our present work is the first to propose an algorithm that provably recovers an $ε$-optimal ranking with high probability while allowing as large as $O(n)$ perturbed pairwise comparison results per model response. Furthermore, we show robust recovery results in the partially observed setting. Our experiments confirm that our algorithms handle adversarial noise and unobserved comparisons well in both general and LLM preference dataset settings. This work contributes to the development and scaling of more reliable and ethically aligned AI models by equipping the dataset curation pipeline with the ability to handle missing and maliciously manipulated inputs.
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spellingShingle CURATRON: Complete and Robust Preference Data for Rigorous Alignment of Large Language Models
Nguyen, Son The
Naresh, Niranjan Uma
Tulabandhula, Theja
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
This paper addresses the challenges of aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values via preference learning (PL), focusing on incomplete and corrupted data in preference datasets. We propose a novel method for robustly and completely recalibrating values within these datasets to enhance LLMs' resilience against the issues. In particular, we devise a guaranteed polynomial time ranking algorithm that robustifies several existing models, such as the classic Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) (Bradley and Terry, 1952) model and certain generalizations of it. To the best of our knowledge, our present work is the first to propose an algorithm that provably recovers an $ε$-optimal ranking with high probability while allowing as large as $O(n)$ perturbed pairwise comparison results per model response. Furthermore, we show robust recovery results in the partially observed setting. Our experiments confirm that our algorithms handle adversarial noise and unobserved comparisons well in both general and LLM preference dataset settings. This work contributes to the development and scaling of more reliable and ethically aligned AI models by equipping the dataset curation pipeline with the ability to handle missing and maliciously manipulated inputs.
title CURATRON: Complete and Robust Preference Data for Rigorous Alignment of Large Language Models
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02745