用自生成评分标准让大模型自我训练,突破开放任务局限。
Bootstrapping Post-training Signals for Open-ended Tasks via Rubric-based Self-play on Pre-training Text
- 大模型自动生成题目和评分标准,实现无监督自我训练。
- 在医疗问答、创意写作等任务上显著提升模型表现。
- 基于预训练文本构建评分体系,防止奖励滥用和模式坍缩。
自博弈(Self-play)是近期用于大语言模型后训练的有前景范式。在自博弈中,目标模型自行生成任务输入(如问题),再自行生成输出(如答案),由奖励模型评估输出并用于训练,通常通过强化学习实现。其关键优势是极低的监督成本:避免了传统人工或昂贵专有模型构建高质量输入-输出对的需求。然而,现有工作仅将自博弈应用于可验证任务(如数学与编程),因这类任务具备客观真实答案且易于检查。本文旨在将自博弈扩展至更真实的开放性任务。我们提出POP框架,利用同一LLM自动生成每个输入-输出对对应的评价标准(评分细则)。该评分标准用于评估输出并训练模型。关键在于,框架基于内容丰富的预训练语料库构建:(1)形成可利用的生成-验证差距,减少奖励欺骗;(2)防止模式坍缩。在Qwen-2.5-7B模型上,POP显著提升了基础预训练模型及指令微调模型在多项任务上的表现,涵盖长篇医疗问答、创意写作与指令遵循等。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Self-play has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for post-training Large Language Models (LLMs). In self-play, the target LLM creates the task input (e.g., a question), which it then addresses itself by producing a task output (e.g., an answer). A reward model evaluates the output, and the rewards are used to train the LLM, typically via Reinforcement Learning (RL). A key benefit of self-play for post-training LLMs is its minimal supervision costs: self-play avoids the need for high-quality input-output pairs traditionally constructed by humans or expensive proprietary models. Existing work, however, explores self-play only for verifiable tasks, such as math and coding, for which objective ground truth is available and easily checkable. In this paper, we seek to extend self-play to more realistic open-ended tasks. We propose POP, a self-play framework that uses the same LLM to synthesize evaluation rubrics along with each input-output pair. The rubric is used to evaluate outputs and train the model. Crucially, we ground the framework on a content-rich pretraining corpus to (1) enable an exploitable generation-verification gap and reduce reward hacking, and (2) prevent mode collapse. On Qwen-2.5-7B, POP increases performance of both the pretrained base model and instruction-tuned model on multiple tasks ranging from long-form healthcare QA to creative writing and instruction following.
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