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| author | Bose, Avinandan Xiong, Zhihan Saha, Aadirupa Du, Simon Shaolei Fazel, Maryam |
| author_facet | Bose, Avinandan Xiong, Zhihan Saha, Aadirupa Du, Simon Shaolei Fazel, Maryam |
| contents | Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is currently the leading approach for aligning large language models with human preferences. Typically, these models rely on extensive offline preference datasets for training. However, offline algorithms impose strict concentrability requirements, which are often difficult to satisfy. On the other hand, while online algorithms can avoid the concentrability issue, pure online exploration could be expensive due to the active preference query cost and real-time implementation overhead. In this paper, we propose a novel approach: Hybrid Preference Optimization (HPO) which combines online exploration with existing offline preferences by relaxing the stringent concentrability conditions for offline exploration, as well as significantly improving the sample efficiency for its online counterpart. We give the first provably optimal theoretical bound for Hybrid RLHF with preference feedback, providing sample complexity bounds for policy optimization with matching lower bounds. Our results yield improved sample efficiency of hybrid RLHF over pure offline and online exploration. |
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| spellingShingle | Hybrid Preference Optimization for Alignment: Provably Faster Convergence Rates by Combining Offline Preferences with Online Exploration Bose, Avinandan Xiong, Zhihan Saha, Aadirupa Du, Simon Shaolei Fazel, Maryam Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is currently the leading approach for aligning large language models with human preferences. Typically, these models rely on extensive offline preference datasets for training. However, offline algorithms impose strict concentrability requirements, which are often difficult to satisfy. On the other hand, while online algorithms can avoid the concentrability issue, pure online exploration could be expensive due to the active preference query cost and real-time implementation overhead. In this paper, we propose a novel approach: Hybrid Preference Optimization (HPO) which combines online exploration with existing offline preferences by relaxing the stringent concentrability conditions for offline exploration, as well as significantly improving the sample efficiency for its online counterpart. We give the first provably optimal theoretical bound for Hybrid RLHF with preference feedback, providing sample complexity bounds for policy optimization with matching lower bounds. Our results yield improved sample efficiency of hybrid RLHF over pure offline and online exploration. |
| title | Hybrid Preference Optimization for Alignment: Provably Faster Convergence Rates by Combining Offline Preferences with Online Exploration |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10616 |