PerPO: Perceptual Preference Optimization via Discriminative Rewarding

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Autores principales: Zhu, Zining, Zhao, Liang, Lin, Kangheng, Yang, Jinze, Yu, En, Liu, Chenglong, Wei, Haoran, Sun, Jianjian, Ge, Zheng, Zhang, Xiangyu
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Publicado: 2025
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author Zhu, Zining
Zhao, Liang
Lin, Kangheng
Yang, Jinze
Yu, En
Liu, Chenglong
Wei, Haoran
Sun, Jianjian
Ge, Zheng
Zhang, Xiangyu
author_facet Zhu, Zining
Zhao, Liang
Lin, Kangheng
Yang, Jinze
Yu, En
Liu, Chenglong
Wei, Haoran
Sun, Jianjian
Ge, Zheng
Zhang, Xiangyu
contents This paper presents Perceptual Preference Optimization (PerPO), a perception alignment method aimed at addressing the visual discrimination challenges in generative pre-trained multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To align MLLMs with human visual perception process, PerPO employs discriminative rewarding to gather diverse negative samples, followed by listwise preference optimization to rank them.By utilizing the reward as a quantitative margin for ranking, our method effectively bridges generative preference optimization and discriminative empirical risk minimization. PerPO significantly enhances MLLMs' visual discrimination capabilities while maintaining their generative strengths, mitigates image-unconditional reward hacking, and ensures consistent performance across visual tasks. This work marks a crucial step towards more perceptually aligned and versatile MLLMs. We also hope that PerPO will encourage the community to rethink MLLM alignment strategies.
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spellingShingle PerPO: Perceptual Preference Optimization via Discriminative Rewarding
Zhu, Zining
Zhao, Liang
Lin, Kangheng
Yang, Jinze
Yu, En
Liu, Chenglong
Wei, Haoran
Sun, Jianjian
Ge, Zheng
Zhang, Xiangyu
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
This paper presents Perceptual Preference Optimization (PerPO), a perception alignment method aimed at addressing the visual discrimination challenges in generative pre-trained multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To align MLLMs with human visual perception process, PerPO employs discriminative rewarding to gather diverse negative samples, followed by listwise preference optimization to rank them.By utilizing the reward as a quantitative margin for ranking, our method effectively bridges generative preference optimization and discriminative empirical risk minimization. PerPO significantly enhances MLLMs' visual discrimination capabilities while maintaining their generative strengths, mitigates image-unconditional reward hacking, and ensures consistent performance across visual tasks. This work marks a crucial step towards more perceptually aligned and versatile MLLMs. We also hope that PerPO will encourage the community to rethink MLLM alignment strategies.
title PerPO: Perceptual Preference Optimization via Discriminative Rewarding
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04371