用用户反应时间提升偏好学习效果,让模型更省数据、更准。
Preference Learning with Response Time: Robust Losses and Guarantees
- 结合反应时间与选择偏好,用漂移扩散模型建模决策强度。
- 理论证明新方法将误差增长从指数级降为多项式级,样本效率大增。
- 适用于图像偏好学习,适合做大模型奖励建模的研究者参考。
本文研究如何将反应时间数据融入人类偏好学习框架,以更高效地构建奖励模型。尽管二元偏好数据已成为微调基础模型、生成式AI系统等大规模模型的核心,但用户决策过程中蕴含的时间信息仍被忽视。我们提出新方法,结合反应时间与二元选择数据,基于证据积累漂移扩散(EZ)模型,该模型认为反应时间反映偏好强度。我们设计了奈曼正交损失函数,实现奖励模型学习的最优收敛率,达到若已知每项查询期望反应时间时的理论最优表现。理论分析表明:对于线性奖励函数,传统偏好学习的误差随奖励幅度呈指数增长;而本方法将其降为多项式增长,显著提升样本效率。我们将该保证拓展至非参数奖励函数空间,建立了更复杂、更现实奖励模型的收敛性质。大量实验在图像偏好学习场景中验证了理论结果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper investigates the integration of response time data into human preference learning frameworks for more effective reward model elicitation. While binary preference data has become fundamental in fine-tuning foundation models, generative AI systems, and other large-scale models, the valuable temporal information inherent in user decision-making remains largely unexploited. We propose novel methodologies to incorporate response time information alongside binary choice data, leveraging the Evidence Accumulation Drift Diffusion (EZ) model, under which response time is informative of the preference strength. We develop Neyman-orthogonal loss functions that achieve oracle convergence rates for reward model learning, matching the theoretical optimal rates that would be attained if the expected response times for each query were known a priori. Our theoretical analysis demonstrates that for linear reward functions, conventional preference learning suffers from error rates that scale exponentially with reward magnitude. In contrast, our response time-augmented approach reduces this to polynomial scaling, representing a significant improvement in sample efficiency. We extend these guarantees to non-parametric reward function spaces, establishing convergence properties for more complex, realistic reward models. Our extensive experiments validate our theoretical findings in the context of preference learning over images.
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