WorldPM: Scaling Human Preference Modeling

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Main Authors: Wang, Binghai, Lin, Runji, Lu, Keming, Yu, Le, Zhang, Zhenru, Huang, Fei, Zheng, Chujie, Dang, Kai, Fan, Yang, Ren, Xingzhang, Yang, An, Hui, Binyuan, Liu, Dayiheng, Gui, Tao, Zhang, Qi, Huang, Xuanjing, Jiang, Yu-Gang, Yu, Bowen, Zhou, Jingren, Lin, Junyang
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author Wang, Binghai
Lin, Runji
Lu, Keming
Yu, Le
Zhang, Zhenru
Huang, Fei
Zheng, Chujie
Dang, Kai
Fan, Yang
Ren, Xingzhang
Yang, An
Hui, Binyuan
Liu, Dayiheng
Gui, Tao
Zhang, Qi
Huang, Xuanjing
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Yu, Bowen
Zhou, Jingren
Lin, Junyang
author_facet Wang, Binghai
Lin, Runji
Lu, Keming
Yu, Le
Zhang, Zhenru
Huang, Fei
Zheng, Chujie
Dang, Kai
Fan, Yang
Ren, Xingzhang
Yang, An
Hui, Binyuan
Liu, Dayiheng
Gui, Tao
Zhang, Qi
Huang, Xuanjing
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Yu, Bowen
Zhou, Jingren
Lin, Junyang
contents Motivated by scaling laws in language modeling that demonstrate how test loss scales as a power law with model and dataset sizes, we find that similar laws exist in preference modeling. We propose World Preference Modeling$ (WorldPM) to emphasize this scaling potential, where World Preference embodies a unified representation of human preferences. In this paper, we collect preference data from public forums covering diverse user communities, and conduct extensive training using 15M-scale data across models ranging from 1.5B to 72B parameters. We observe distinct patterns across different evaluation metrics: (1) Adversarial metrics (ability to identify deceptive features) consistently scale up with increased training data and base model size; (2) Objective metrics (objective knowledge with well-defined answers) show emergent behavior in larger language models, highlighting WorldPM's scalability potential; (3) Subjective metrics (subjective preferences from a limited number of humans or AI) do not demonstrate scaling trends. Further experiments validate the effectiveness of WorldPM as a foundation for preference fine-tuning. Through evaluations on 7 benchmarks with 20 subtasks, we find that WorldPM broadly improves the generalization performance across human preference datasets of varying sizes (7K, 100K and 800K samples), with performance gains exceeding 5% on many key subtasks. Integrating WorldPM into our internal RLHF pipeline, we observe significant improvements on both in-house and public evaluation sets, with notable gains of 4% to 8% in our in-house evaluations.
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Wang, Binghai
Lin, Runji
Lu, Keming
Yu, Le
Zhang, Zhenru
Huang, Fei
Zheng, Chujie
Dang, Kai
Fan, Yang
Ren, Xingzhang
Yang, An
Hui, Binyuan
Liu, Dayiheng
Gui, Tao
Zhang, Qi
Huang, Xuanjing
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Yu, Bowen
Zhou, Jingren
Lin, Junyang
Computation and Language
Motivated by scaling laws in language modeling that demonstrate how test loss scales as a power law with model and dataset sizes, we find that similar laws exist in preference modeling. We propose World Preference Modeling$ (WorldPM) to emphasize this scaling potential, where World Preference embodies a unified representation of human preferences. In this paper, we collect preference data from public forums covering diverse user communities, and conduct extensive training using 15M-scale data across models ranging from 1.5B to 72B parameters. We observe distinct patterns across different evaluation metrics: (1) Adversarial metrics (ability to identify deceptive features) consistently scale up with increased training data and base model size; (2) Objective metrics (objective knowledge with well-defined answers) show emergent behavior in larger language models, highlighting WorldPM's scalability potential; (3) Subjective metrics (subjective preferences from a limited number of humans or AI) do not demonstrate scaling trends. Further experiments validate the effectiveness of WorldPM as a foundation for preference fine-tuning. Through evaluations on 7 benchmarks with 20 subtasks, we find that WorldPM broadly improves the generalization performance across human preference datasets of varying sizes (7K, 100K and 800K samples), with performance gains exceeding 5% on many key subtasks. Integrating WorldPM into our internal RLHF pipeline, we observe significant improvements on both in-house and public evaluation sets, with notable gains of 4% to 8% in our in-house evaluations.
title WorldPM: Scaling Human Preference Modeling
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10527