M-RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models in Multilingual Settings

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Autori principali: Gureja, Srishti, Miranda, Lester James V., Islam, Shayekh Bin, Maheshwary, Rishabh, Sharma, Drishti, Winata, Gusti, Lambert, Nathan, Ruder, Sebastian, Hooker, Sara, Fadaee, Marzieh
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author Gureja, Srishti
Miranda, Lester James V.
Islam, Shayekh Bin
Maheshwary, Rishabh
Sharma, Drishti
Winata, Gusti
Lambert, Nathan
Ruder, Sebastian
Hooker, Sara
Fadaee, Marzieh
author_facet Gureja, Srishti
Miranda, Lester James V.
Islam, Shayekh Bin
Maheshwary, Rishabh
Sharma, Drishti
Winata, Gusti
Lambert, Nathan
Ruder, Sebastian
Hooker, Sara
Fadaee, Marzieh
contents Reward models (RMs) have driven the state-of-the-art performance of LLMs today by enabling the integration of human feedback into the language modeling process. However, RMs are primarily trained and evaluated in English, and their capabilities in multilingual settings remain largely understudied. In this work, we conduct a systematic evaluation of several reward models in multilingual settings. We first construct the first-of-its-kind multilingual RM evaluation benchmark, M-RewardBench, consisting of 2.87k preference instances for 23 typologically diverse languages, that tests the chat, safety, reasoning, and translation capabilities of RMs. We then rigorously evaluate a wide range of reward models on M-RewardBench, offering fresh insights into their performance across diverse languages. We identify a significant gap in RMs' performances between English and non-English languages and show that RM preferences can change substantially from one language to another. We also present several findings on how different multilingual aspects impact RM performance. Specifically, we show that the performance of RMs is improved with improved translation quality. Similarly, we demonstrate that the models exhibit better performance for high-resource languages. We release M-RewardBench dataset and the codebase in this study to facilitate a better understanding of RM evaluation in multilingual settings.
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spellingShingle M-RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models in Multilingual Settings
Gureja, Srishti
Miranda, Lester James V.
Islam, Shayekh Bin
Maheshwary, Rishabh
Sharma, Drishti
Winata, Gusti
Lambert, Nathan
Ruder, Sebastian
Hooker, Sara
Fadaee, Marzieh
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Reward models (RMs) have driven the state-of-the-art performance of LLMs today by enabling the integration of human feedback into the language modeling process. However, RMs are primarily trained and evaluated in English, and their capabilities in multilingual settings remain largely understudied. In this work, we conduct a systematic evaluation of several reward models in multilingual settings. We first construct the first-of-its-kind multilingual RM evaluation benchmark, M-RewardBench, consisting of 2.87k preference instances for 23 typologically diverse languages, that tests the chat, safety, reasoning, and translation capabilities of RMs. We then rigorously evaluate a wide range of reward models on M-RewardBench, offering fresh insights into their performance across diverse languages. We identify a significant gap in RMs' performances between English and non-English languages and show that RM preferences can change substantially from one language to another. We also present several findings on how different multilingual aspects impact RM performance. Specifically, we show that the performance of RMs is improved with improved translation quality. Similarly, we demonstrate that the models exhibit better performance for high-resource languages. We release M-RewardBench dataset and the codebase in this study to facilitate a better understanding of RM evaluation in multilingual settings.
title M-RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models in Multilingual Settings
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15522