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| author | Guo, Honglin Lv, Kai Guo, Qipeng Liang, Tianyi Xi, Zhiheng Song, Demin Zhang, Qiuyinzhe Sun, Yu Chen, Kai Qiu, Xipeng Gui, Tao |
| author_facet | Guo, Honglin Lv, Kai Guo, Qipeng Liang, Tianyi Xi, Zhiheng Song, Demin Zhang, Qiuyinzhe Sun, Yu Chen, Kai Qiu, Xipeng Gui, Tao |
| contents | Language model heavily depends on high-quality data for optimal performance. Existing approaches rely on manually designed heuristics, the perplexity of existing models, training classifiers, or careful prompt engineering, which require significant expert experience and human annotation effort while introduce biases. We introduce CritiQ, a novel data selection method that automatically mines criteria from human preferences for data quality with only ~30 human-annotated pairs and performs efficient data selection. The main component, CritiQ Flow, employs a manager agent to evolve quality criteria and worker agents to make pairwise judgments. We build a knowledge base that extracts quality criteria from previous work to boost CritiQ Flow. Compared to perplexity- and classifier- based methods, verbal criteria are more interpretable and possess reusable value. After deriving the criteria, we train the CritiQ Scorer to give quality scores and perform efficient data selection. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in the code, math, and logic domains, achieving high accuracy on human-annotated test sets. To validate the quality of the selected data, we continually train Llama 3.1 models and observe improved performance on downstream tasks compared to uniform sampling. Ablation studies validate the benefits of the knowledge base and the reflection process. We analyze how criteria evolve and the effectiveness of majority voting. |
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| spellingShingle | CritiQ: Mining Data Quality Criteria from Human Preferences Guo, Honglin Lv, Kai Guo, Qipeng Liang, Tianyi Xi, Zhiheng Song, Demin Zhang, Qiuyinzhe Sun, Yu Chen, Kai Qiu, Xipeng Gui, Tao Computation and Language Language model heavily depends on high-quality data for optimal performance. Existing approaches rely on manually designed heuristics, the perplexity of existing models, training classifiers, or careful prompt engineering, which require significant expert experience and human annotation effort while introduce biases. We introduce CritiQ, a novel data selection method that automatically mines criteria from human preferences for data quality with only ~30 human-annotated pairs and performs efficient data selection. The main component, CritiQ Flow, employs a manager agent to evolve quality criteria and worker agents to make pairwise judgments. We build a knowledge base that extracts quality criteria from previous work to boost CritiQ Flow. Compared to perplexity- and classifier- based methods, verbal criteria are more interpretable and possess reusable value. After deriving the criteria, we train the CritiQ Scorer to give quality scores and perform efficient data selection. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in the code, math, and logic domains, achieving high accuracy on human-annotated test sets. To validate the quality of the selected data, we continually train Llama 3.1 models and observe improved performance on downstream tasks compared to uniform sampling. Ablation studies validate the benefits of the knowledge base and the reflection process. We analyze how criteria evolve and the effectiveness of majority voting. |
| title | CritiQ: Mining Data Quality Criteria from Human Preferences |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19279 |