提出LeanPO方法,解决视频大模型偏好对齐中的概率偏移问题。
LeanPO: Lean Preference Optimization for Likelihood Alignment in Video-LLMs
- 用策略模型自身生成的响应平均似然替代隐式奖励,避免概率下降。
- 通过自反思机制持续优化偏好数据,提升奖励估计准确性。
- 适用于各类视频大模型,轻量高效且增强人类信任度
多数视频大语言模型(Video-LLMs)采用偏好对齐技术(如DPO)优化胜出响应(y_w)与失败响应(y_l)之间的奖励差距。然而,DPO存在似然位移现象:训练中log π_θ(y_w|x) 和 log π_θ(y_l|x) 均下降,意外提升了非目标响应的概率。本文系统分析该现象从通用大模型延伸至视频大模型,发现视频内容冗余复杂性加剧了此问题。为此,提出无参考的「瘦型偏好优化」(LeanPO),将隐式奖励重新定义为策略模型对响应的平均似然。核心是奖励可信度相关自生成偏好数据流水线,结合先验知识注入与自我反思迭代优化,使模型获得高质量配对数据并准确估计新奖励,从而缓解意外下降。此外引入动态标签平滑策略,降低多源视频响应中的噪声影响,防止模型过拟合于无关细节。大量实验表明,LeanPO显著提升主流Video-LLM性能,在不同容量基线中一致增益,且训练开销极低。同时提供一种简单有效的方案,实现视频大模型偏好与人类可信度对齐,推动可靠高效的视频大模型发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Most Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) adopt preference alignment techniques, e.g., DPO~\citep{rafailov2024dpo}, to optimize the reward margin between a winning response ($y_w$) and a losing response ($y_l$). However, the likelihood displacement observed in DPO indicates that both $\log π_θ(y_w\mid x)$ and $\log π_θ(y_l\mid x) $ often decrease during training, inadvertently boosting the probabilities of non-target responses. In this paper, we systematically revisit this phenomenon from LLMs to Video-LLMs, showing that it intensifies when dealing with the redundant complexity of video content. To alleviate the impact of this phenomenon, we propose \emph{Lean Preference Optimization} (LeanPO), a reference-free approach that reformulates the implicit reward as the average likelihood of the response with respect to the policy model. A key component of LeanPO is the reward-trustworthiness correlated self-generated preference data pipeline, which carefully infuses relevant prior knowledge into the model while continuously refining the preference data via self-reflection. This allows the policy model to obtain high-quality paired data and accurately estimate the newly defined reward, thus mitigating the unintended drop. In addition, we introduce a dynamic label smoothing strategy that mitigates the impact of noise in responses from diverse video content, preventing the model from overfitting to spurious details. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LeanPO significantly enhances the performance of state-of-the-art Video-LLMs, consistently boosting baselines of varying capacities with minimal additional training overhead. Moreover, LeanPO offers a simple yet effective solution for aligning Video-LLM preferences with human trustworthiness, paving the way toward the reliable and efficient Video-LLMs.
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