评测奖励模型在多样偏好下的泛化能力,发现现有模型表现有限。
RMGAP: Benchmarking the Generalization of Reward Models across Diverse Preferences

- 构建跨对话、写作、推理和安全领域的1097个测试实例,每题生成四类不同语言风格的回答。
- 通过对比设计使每个问题仅一个回答最优,模拟真实用户偏好差异。
- 24个主流奖励模型最佳表现仅49.27%准确率,凸显泛化能力不足。
基于人类反馈的强化学习已成为语言模型对齐的标准范式,其中奖励模型直接决定对齐效果。本文聚焦于如何评估奖励模型的泛化能力——即正确排序响应以匹配多样用户偏好的能力。然而,现有奖励模型基准通常围绕单一普遍偏好设计,难以评估此泛化性。为此,我们提出RMGAP,包含1,097个实例,覆盖对话、写作、推理与安全四大领域。针对同一任务不同用户存在不同偏好,我们为每个原始提示生成四种语言风格各异的回应。由于原提示缺乏表达偏好差异的具体信息,我们通过对比候选回答并设计特定场景,使其中一个回应成为唯一合适选择。同时观察到用户常以不同措辞表达相同偏好,因此每条提示扩展出两个改写版本。对24个先进奖励模型的评估显示其存在显著局限:即使最优模型也仅达49.27% Best-of-N准确率,表明奖励模型泛化能力仍有巨大提升空间。相关数据与代码已开源于https://github.com/nanzhi84/RMGAP。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback has become the standard paradigm for language model alignment, where reward models directly determine alignment effectiveness. In this work, we focus on how to evaluate the generalizability of reward models. By "generalizability", we mean the ability of RMs to correctly rank responses to align with diverse user preferences. However, existing reward model benchmarks are typically designed around a universal preference, failing to assess this generalization. To address this critical gap, we introduce RMGAP, a benchmark comprising 1,097 instances across Chat, Writing, Reasoning, and Safety domains. Since different users exhibit diverse preferences for the same task, we first generate four distinct responses with different linguistic profiles for each collected prompt. However, the original prompt set lacks the specificity to convey different preferences. We therefore construct tailored prompts by contrasting these candidates and designing scenarios in which one response becomes the uniquely appropriate choice. Moreover, we observe that users often express the same preference using different phrasings, and thus extend each prompt with two paraphrased variants. Our evaluation of 24 state-of-the-art RMs reveals their substantial limitations: even the best RM achieves only 49.27% Best-of-N accuracy, highlighting considerable room for improvement in reward model generalization. Related data and code are available at https://github.com/nanzhi84/RMGAP.
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