arXiv:2601.11865cs.CL2026-01AAAI被引 4

首次实现异构分词器间偏好对齐,让小模型高效学习大模型的人类偏好。

CTPD: Cross Tokenizer Preference Distillation

  • 通过字符级跨度映射,实现不同分词器间的精准偏好传递。
  • 在多个基准上显著超越现有方法,性能提升明显。
  • 适合需要跨模型对齐人类偏好的研究与应用者。

尽管知识蒸馏在预训练和指令微调中广泛应用,但其在语言模型与人类偏好对齐中的应用仍不充分,尤其是在更贴近现实的跨分词器场景下。教师与学生模型分词方案不兼容,阻碍了细粒度、白盒式的偏好信息蒸馏。为此,我们提出首个统一框架——跨分词器偏好蒸馏(CTPD),实现异构分词器间人类对齐行为的迁移。CTPD引入三项关键创新:(1) 对齐跨度投影,将教师与学生分词映射至共享的字符级跨度,实现精确监督传递;(2) 改进的分词器间逐标记重要性采样(TIS-DPO),优化信用分配;(3) 教师锚定参考机制,使学生能直接在DPO风格目标中利用教师偏好。理论分析表明其基于重要性采样,多基准实验验证其有效性,显著优于现有方法。结果证明CTPD是跨分词器偏好蒸馏的实用且通用解法,为语言模型对齐提供了更高效、易用的新路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While knowledge distillation has seen widespread use in pre-training and instruction tuning, its application to aligning language models with human preferences remains underexplored, particularly in the more realistic cross-tokenizer setting. The incompatibility of tokenization schemes between teacher and student models has largely prevented fine-grained, white-box distillation of preference information. To address this gap, we propose Cross-Tokenizer Preference Distillation (CTPD), the first unified framework for transferring human-aligned behavior between models with heterogeneous tokenizers. CTPD introduces three key innovations: (1) Aligned Span Projection, which maps teacher and student tokens to shared character-level spans for precise supervision transfer; (2) a cross-tokenizer adaptation of Token-level Importance Sampling (TIS-DPO) for improved credit assignment; and (3) a Teacher-Anchored Reference, allowing the student to directly leverage the teacher's preferences in a DPO-style objective. Our theoretical analysis grounds CTPD in importance sampling, and experiments across multiple benchmarks confirm its effectiveness, with significant performance gains over existing methods. These results establish CTPD as a practical and general solution for preference distillation across diverse tokenization schemes, opening the door to more accessible and efficient alignment of language models.

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