Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning from Preference Human Feedback

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Main Authors: Shani, Lior, Rosenberg, Aviv, Cassel, Asaf, Lang, Oran, Calandriello, Daniele, Zipori, Avital, Noga, Hila, Keller, Orgad, Piot, Bilal, Szpektor, Idan, Hassidim, Avinatan, Matias, Yossi, Munos, Rémi
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author Shani, Lior
Rosenberg, Aviv
Cassel, Asaf
Lang, Oran
Calandriello, Daniele
Zipori, Avital
Noga, Hila
Keller, Orgad
Piot, Bilal
Szpektor, Idan
Hassidim, Avinatan
Matias, Yossi
Munos, Rémi
author_facet Shani, Lior
Rosenberg, Aviv
Cassel, Asaf
Lang, Oran
Calandriello, Daniele
Zipori, Avital
Noga, Hila
Keller, Orgad
Piot, Bilal
Szpektor, Idan
Hassidim, Avinatan
Matias, Yossi
Munos, Rémi
contents Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, allowing LLMs to demonstrate remarkable abilities in various tasks. Existing methods work by emulating the preferences at the single decision (turn) level, limiting their capabilities in settings that require planning or multi-turn interactions to achieve a long-term goal. In this paper, we address this issue by developing novel methods for Reinforcement Learning (RL) from preference feedback between two full multi-turn conversations. In the tabular setting, we present a novel mirror-descent-based policy optimization algorithm for the general multi-turn preference-based RL problem, and prove its convergence to Nash equilibrium. To evaluate performance, we create a new environment, Education Dialogue, where a teacher agent guides a student in learning a random topic, and show that a deep RL variant of our algorithm outperforms RLHF baselines. Finally, we show that in an environment with explicit rewards, our algorithm recovers the same performance as a reward-based RL baseline, despite relying solely on a weaker preference signal.
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spellingShingle Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning from Preference Human Feedback
Shani, Lior
Rosenberg, Aviv
Cassel, Asaf
Lang, Oran
Calandriello, Daniele
Zipori, Avital
Noga, Hila
Keller, Orgad
Piot, Bilal
Szpektor, Idan
Hassidim, Avinatan
Matias, Yossi
Munos, Rémi
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, allowing LLMs to demonstrate remarkable abilities in various tasks. Existing methods work by emulating the preferences at the single decision (turn) level, limiting their capabilities in settings that require planning or multi-turn interactions to achieve a long-term goal. In this paper, we address this issue by developing novel methods for Reinforcement Learning (RL) from preference feedback between two full multi-turn conversations. In the tabular setting, we present a novel mirror-descent-based policy optimization algorithm for the general multi-turn preference-based RL problem, and prove its convergence to Nash equilibrium. To evaluate performance, we create a new environment, Education Dialogue, where a teacher agent guides a student in learning a random topic, and show that a deep RL variant of our algorithm outperforms RLHF baselines. Finally, we show that in an environment with explicit rewards, our algorithm recovers the same performance as a reward-based RL baseline, despite relying solely on a weaker preference signal.
title Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning from Preference Human Feedback
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14655