用可调参数统一自洽强化学习,让大模型用少量标注数据超越传统微调。
IRIS: Interpolative Rényi Iterative Self-play for Large Language Model Fine-Tuning

- 通过可变参数α动态调节自生成与标注数据的权重,实现平滑过渡的训练过程。
- 仅用2.6万标注样本即超过全量20万样本的监督微调,平均得分44.57%。
- 适合资源有限但追求高效训练的模型优化场景,尤其适合少样本微调任务。
自洽强化学习使大语言模型在无需额外人工标注的情况下,通过对比人工标注回答与自生成回答来提升性能。现有方法多依赖固定散度范式:SPIN 基于KL 散度,SPACE 采用基于噪声对比估计的JS 散度,SPIF 则使用χ² 正则化自洽学习。由于不同散度在模型与目标分布差距不同时表现各异,单一选择难以适应全训练阶段。本文提出IRIS(Interpolative Rényi Iterative Self-play),一种基于Rényi散度、可连续调节的目标函数框架。IRIS将损失分解为标注数据与合成数据上的两个独立倾斜风险项,其指数重要性权重由参数α控制。我们证明多种现有自洽方法可视为α取特定值时的极限情形,从而提供统一理论视角。进一步设计自适应α调度策略,根据分布差距动态调整:训练初期强化差异,收敛前趋于平滑。理论上,我们建立了IRIS的不动点性质,并分析了α对梯度集中度的影响。在Zephyr-7B和Qwen2.5-3B上,跨十项基准测试显示,IRIS优于基线,平均得分达44.57%,且在各迭代阶段均有提升。在本设置中,仅使用26,000个标注样本的IRIS已超越使用完整200,000样本进行标准监督微调的模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Self-play fine-tuning enables large language models to improve beyond supervised fine-tuning without additional human annotations by contrasting annotated responses with self-generated ones. Many existing methods rely on a fixed divergence regime. SPIN is closely related to a KL-based regime, SPACE to a Jensen-Shannon-style objective via noise contrastive estimation, and SPIF to $χ^2$-regularized self-play. Since these divergences exhibit different strengths depending on the distributional gap between model and target, no single choice appears to provide favorable learning dynamics across training stages. We propose IRIS (Interpolative Rényi Iterative Self-play), a Rényi-based self-play fine-tuning framework with a continuously adjustable objective. IRIS decomposes into two independent tilted risk terms over annotated and synthetic data, with exponential importance weights controlled by the order parameter $α$. We show that several self-play objectives can be interpreted as limiting or representative regimes at particular values of $α$, providing a unified theoretical perspective on these methods. An adaptive order schedule further adjusts $α$ to the distributional gap, shifting from sharper importance weighting early in training to smoother refinement near convergence. Theoretically, we establish the fixed-point property of IRIS and analyze how $α$ controls gradient concentration. Experiments on Zephyr-7B and Qwen2.5-3B across ten benchmarks show that IRIS improves upon baselines, reaching 44.57\% average score with gains across iterations. In our setting, IRIS with only 26$k$ annotated samples surpasses standard supervised fine-tuning trained on the full 200$k$ dataset.
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