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Main Authors: Bao, Rong, Zheng, Rui, Dou, Shihan, Wang, Xiao, Zhou, Enyu, Wang, Bo, Zhang, Qi, Ding, Liang, Tao, Dacheng
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11190
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author Bao, Rong
Zheng, Rui
Dou, Shihan
Wang, Xiao
Zhou, Enyu
Wang, Bo
Zhang, Qi
Ding, Liang
Tao, Dacheng
author_facet Bao, Rong
Zheng, Rui
Dou, Shihan
Wang, Xiao
Zhou, Enyu
Wang, Bo
Zhang, Qi
Ding, Liang
Tao, Dacheng
contents In aligning large language models (LLMs), utilizing feedback from existing advanced AI rather than humans is an important method to scale supervisory signals. However, it is highly challenging for AI to understand human intentions and societal values, and provide accurate preference feedback based on these. Current AI feedback methods rely on powerful LLMs, carefully designed specific principles to describe human intentions, and are easily influenced by position bias. To address these issues, we propose a self-reference-based AI feedback framework that enables a 13B Llama2-Chat to provide high-quality feedback under simple and general principles such as ``best for humanity``. Specifically, we allow the AI to first respond to the user's instructions, then generate criticism of other answers based on its own response as a reference, and finally determine which answer better fits human preferences according to the criticism. Additionally, we use a self-consistency method to further reduce the impact of position bias, and employ semantic perplexity to calculate the preference strength differences between different answers. Experimental results show that our method enables 13B and 70B Llama2-Chat annotators to provide high-quality preference feedback, and the policy models trained based on these preference data achieve significant advantages in benchmark datasets through reinforcement learning.
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spellingShingle Aligning Large Language Models from Self-Reference AI Feedback with one General Principle
Bao, Rong
Zheng, Rui
Dou, Shihan
Wang, Xiao
Zhou, Enyu
Wang, Bo
Zhang, Qi
Ding, Liang
Tao, Dacheng
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
In aligning large language models (LLMs), utilizing feedback from existing advanced AI rather than humans is an important method to scale supervisory signals. However, it is highly challenging for AI to understand human intentions and societal values, and provide accurate preference feedback based on these. Current AI feedback methods rely on powerful LLMs, carefully designed specific principles to describe human intentions, and are easily influenced by position bias. To address these issues, we propose a self-reference-based AI feedback framework that enables a 13B Llama2-Chat to provide high-quality feedback under simple and general principles such as ``best for humanity``. Specifically, we allow the AI to first respond to the user's instructions, then generate criticism of other answers based on its own response as a reference, and finally determine which answer better fits human preferences according to the criticism. Additionally, we use a self-consistency method to further reduce the impact of position bias, and employ semantic perplexity to calculate the preference strength differences between different answers. Experimental results show that our method enables 13B and 70B Llama2-Chat annotators to provide high-quality preference feedback, and the policy models trained based on these preference data achieve significant advantages in benchmark datasets through reinforcement learning.
title Aligning Large Language Models from Self-Reference AI Feedback with one General Principle
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11190