用人类和大模型偏好双重对齐,把海量低质多模态指令压缩90%仍更优。
Align$^2$LLaVA: Cascaded Human and Large Language Model Preference Alignment for Multi-modal Instruction Curation
- 双路径筛选:人评+大模型风格对齐,提升指令质量
- 指令量减少90%后,性能反而超越原版模型
- 适合需要高效训练多模态模型的研究者
近期多模态大模型(如LLaVA系列)的发展依赖于大量机器生成的指令数据。然而,自动生成的指令存在质量差异显著的问题。本文提出一种新型指令筛选算法,融合人类偏好与大模型偏好双重对齐机制:(i) 通过收集机器生成的多模态指令数据,并由人类专家依据主观与客观标准标注,构建评估体系,训练出一个奖励模型以内化人类对指令对齐的理解;(ii) 基于奖励模型选出的优质指令,利用多模态大模型内部语言模型,对视觉指令的写作风格进行对齐优化,实现指令风格统一。大量实验表明,可将合成多模态指令压缩高达90%而性能保持甚至提升。令人惊喜的是,当训练指令从158,000条缩减至14,000条(缩小9倍)时,模型在多个多模态大模型基准测试中均优于使用全量数据训练的版本。项目代码已开源:https://github.com/DCDmllm/Align2LLaVA。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as LLaVA-series models, are driven by massive machine-generated instruction-following data tuning. Such automatic instruction collection pipelines, however, inadvertently introduce significant variability in data quality. This paper introduces a novel instruction curation algorithm, derived from two unique perspectives, human and LLM preference alignment, to compress this vast corpus of machine-generated multimodal instructions to a compact and high-quality form: (i) For human preference alignment, we have collected a machine-generated multimodal instruction dataset and established a comprehensive set of both subjective and objective criteria to guide the data quality assessment critically from human experts. By doing so, a reward model was trained on the annotated dataset to internalize the nuanced human understanding of instruction alignment. (ii) For LLM preference alignment, given the instruction selected by the reward model, we propose leveraging the inner LLM used in MLLM to align the writing style of visual instructions with that of the inner LLM itself, resulting in LLM-aligned instruction improvement. Extensive experiments demonstrate that we can maintain or even improve model performance by compressing synthetic multimodal instructions by up to 90%. Impressively, by aggressively reducing the training instructions from 158k to 14k (9$\times$ smaller), our model consistently outperforms its full-size dataset counterpart across various MLLM benchmarks. Our project is available at https://github.com/DCDmllm/Align2LLaVA.
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