arXiv:2410.04166cs.LGstat.ML2024-10ICLR被引 13

让模型同时或单独从正负反馈中学习,突破传统方法依赖成对反馈的限制。

Learning from negative feedback, or positive feedback or both

  • 分离正负反馈学习机制,可独立控制两者影响
  • 仅用负反馈也能稳定训练,效果优于现有方法
  • 适合人机交互、强化学习等反馈不完整场景

现有偏好优化方法通常假设可获得成对反馈(偏好/非偏好样本),这限制了其在仅能获取单类反馈(如仅有正面或负面)场景的应用。为此,本文提出一种新方法,将正负反馈的学习过程解耦,实现对两类反馈影响的可控调节,并可在仅存在一种反馈时仍有效学习。关键贡献在于证明了仅使用负反馈即可实现稳定学习,这是当前方法未充分解决的问题。本方法基于Dayan和Hinton(1997)提出的概率框架,采用期望最大化(EM)算法直接优化正向结果的概率(而非经典期望奖励最大化)。针对现有基于EM的方法仅最大化正例似然而忽略负例的缺陷,我们展示了如何显式引入负例,从而得到一个理论坚实、直观且灵活的正负反馈联合学习算法。我们在基于人类反馈训练语言模型及序列决策问题中训练策略的任务上进行了评估,后者可获取学习到的价值函数。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Existing preference optimization methods often assume scenarios where paired preference feedback (preferred/positive vs. dis-preferred/negative examples) is available. This requirement limits their applicability in scenarios where only unpaired feedback--for example, either positive or negative--is available. To address this, we introduce a novel approach that decouples learning from positive and negative feedback. This decoupling enables control over the influence of each feedback type and, importantly, allows learning even when only one feedback type is present. A key contribution is demonstrating stable learning from negative feedback alone, a capability not well-addressed by current methods. Our approach builds upon the probabilistic framework introduced in (Dayan and Hinton, 1997), which uses expectation-maximization (EM) to directly optimize the probability of positive outcomes (as opposed to classic expected reward maximization). We address a key limitation in current EM-based methods: they solely maximize the likelihood of positive examples, while neglecting negative ones. We show how to extend EM algorithms to explicitly incorporate negative examples, leading to a theoretically grounded algorithm that offers an intuitive and versatile way to learn from both positive and negative feedback. We evaluate our approach for training language models based on human feedback as well as training policies for sequential decision-making problems, where learned value functions are available.

偏好学习负反馈强化学习

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