让模型自动生成中间步骤,提升序列生成效果。
Warmup Generations: A Task-Agnostic Approach for Guiding Sequence-to-Sequence Learning with Unsupervised Initial State Generation
- 模型自主生成初始中间序列,无需人工设计结构。
- 在翻译、摘要等任务上超越传统微调方法。
- 适合需要可解释生成的场景,通用性强。
传统的序列到序列任务监督微调通常让模型直接生成目标输出。近期研究表明,通过关键词、提纲或推理链等中间步骤引导模型,能显著提升性能、连贯性和可解释性。然而,这些方法依赖预定义的中间格式和标注数据,限制了其可扩展性和泛化能力。本文提出一种任务无关框架,使模型能够生成中间‘热身’序列作为后续生成的初始状态。这些热身序列通过强化学习思想迭代优化,以最大化对最终输出的贡献,无需外部监督或人工设计结构。在机器翻译、摘要生成及逻辑推理多选题回答等任务上的实验表明,该方法优于传统SFT,为序列生成提供了可扩展且灵活的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Traditional supervised fine-tuning (SFT) strategies for sequence-to-sequence tasks often train models to directly generate the target output. Recent work has shown that guiding models with intermediate steps, such as keywords, outlines, or reasoning chains, can significantly improve performance, coherence, and interpretability. However, these methods often depend on predefined intermediate formats and annotated data, limiting their scalability and generalizability. In this work, we introduce a task-agnostic framework that enables models to generate intermediate "warmup" sequences. These warmup sequences, serving as an initial state for subsequent generation, are optimized to enhance the probability of generating the target sequence without relying on external supervision or human-designed structures. Drawing inspiration from reinforcement learning principles, our method iteratively refines these intermediate steps to maximize their contribution to the final output, similar to reward-driven optimization in reinforcement learning with human feedback. Experimental results across tasks such as translation, summarization, and multi-choice question answering for logical reasoning show that our approach outperforms traditional SFT methods, and offers a scalable and flexible solution for sequence-to-sequence tasks.
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