arXiv:2604.18239cs.LGcs.AI2026-04

提出新方法让大模型训练时只贬低差回答、保留好回答,提升对齐效果。

Towards Disentangled Preference Optimization Dynamics: Suppress the Loser, Preserve the Winner

  • 通过分解奖励得分,发现不同优化目标有相同更新方向
  • 提出可验证的分离带条件,确保训练中只抑制劣质回应
  • 无需修改目标函数,插件式校准即可实现更优对齐性能

偏好优化广泛用于将大语言模型与人类偏好对齐。然而,许多基于边际的方法在压制被拒绝回复的同时也会抑制被选择的回复,且缺乏通用解决方案。本文通过统一的激励得分分解,揭示不同目标具有相同的局部更新方向,仅在标量权重上存在差异。这一分解为此前分立场景下的目标提供了共同分析框架。基于此,通过分析被选/被拒回复的概率动态,我们识别出分离带(DB),一个简单且可测试的条件,用以判断何时训练能遵循期望路径:抑制失败者,同时保护成功者,可能在早期阶段后实现。利用该条件,我们提出奖励校准(RC)方法,一种无需重设计基础目标的即插即用方案,可自适应调整选/拒回复的更新平衡以满足DB。实证结果表明,RC带来更解耦的训练动态,并在多个设置下获得更优下游性能。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Preference optimization is widely used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, many margin-based methods also suppress the chosen response when they try to suppress the rejected one, and there is no general way to prevent this across different objectives. We address this issue with a unified incentive-score decomposition of preference optimization, revealing that different objectives share the same local update directions and differ only in their scalar weights. This decomposition provides a common framework for analyzing objectives that were previously studied in separate settings. Building on this decomposition, by analyzing the dynamics of the chosen/rejected likelihoods, we identify the disentanglement band (DB), a simple, testable condition that tells us when training can follow the desired path: suppress the loser while preserving the winner, possibly after an early stage. Using the DB, we propose reward calibration (RC), a plug-and-play method that adaptively rebalances the updates for chosen and rejected responses to satisfy the DB, without redesigning the base objective. Empirical results show that RC leads to more disentangled dynamics, with better downstream performance observed across several settings. Our code is available at https://github.com/IceyWuu/DisentangledPreferenceOptimization.

偏好优化大模型对齐训练动态

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