通过对抗性负样本优化,解决多模态模型视觉依赖不足的问题。
Modality-Balancing Preference Optimization of Large Multimodal Models by Adversarial Negative Mining
- 用对抗扰动生成误导性视觉误判的负样本,强化模型对图像信息利用。
- 结合在线生成与离线数据训练,提升模型在视觉语言任务上的表现。
- 适合关注多模态推理偏差与幻觉问题的研究者与开发者。
大型多模态模型(LMMs)在指令微调和偏好优化后虽有显著进展,但仍存在严重模态不平衡问题,即过度依赖语言先验而忽视视觉输入,导致下游任务泛化能力差和幻觉现象。现有偏好优化方法未关注其大语言模型(LLM)主干的内部偏见,且高度依赖离线数据,缺乏对动态分布变化的适应能力。为此,本文提出一种新型偏好学习框架——模态平衡偏好优化(MBPO)。MBPO通过对抗性扰动输入图像生成难负样本(即因视觉信息使用不足而产生错误响应),构建更有效的离线偏好数据集;同时利用闭合式任务易于验证的特点,生成具有可验证奖励的在线响应,并采用组相对策略优化(GRPO)进行混合数据训练。大量实验表明,MBPO能显著提升模型在复杂视觉-语言任务上的性能,有效减少幻觉现象。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The task adaptation and alignment of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been significantly advanced by instruction tuning and further strengthened by recent preference optimization. Yet, most LMMs still suffer from severe modality imbalance during reasoning, i.e., outweighing language prior biases over visual inputs, which bottlenecks their generalization to downstream tasks and causes hallucinations. However, existing preference optimization approaches for LMMs do not focus on restraining the internal biases of their Large Language Model (LLM) backbones when curating the training data. Moreover, they heavily rely on offline data and lack the capacity to explore diverse responses adaptive to dynamic distributional shifts during training. Meanwhile, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a recent method using online-generated data and verified rewards to improve reasoning capabilities, remains largely underexplored in LMM alignment. In this paper, we propose a novel preference learning framework, Modality-Balancing Preference Optimization (MBPO), to address the modality imbalance in LMMs. MBPO constructs a more effective offline preference dataset by generating hard negatives, i.e., rejected responses misled by LLM biases due to limited usage of visual information, through adversarial perturbation of input images. Moreover, MBPO leverages the easy-to-verify nature of close-ended tasks to generate online responses with verified rewards. GRPO is then employed to train the model with offline-online hybrid data. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MBPO can enhance LMM performance on challenging vision-language tasks and effectively reduce hallucinations.
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