让AI自己设计越来越难的任务来训练自己,持续提升指令遵循能力。
SEIF: Self-Evolving Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following
- 通过四个角色形成自进化闭环,动态生成挑战性指令
- 在多模型规模下均显著提升指令遵循性能,效果稳定
- 适合想提升大模型任务泛化能力的研究者和开发者
指令遵循是大语言模型的核心能力,但持续提升仍具挑战。现有方法依赖昂贵的人工标注、强教师模型,或使用固定难度的自对弈训练,无法随模型能力演进而调整。为此,我们提出SEIF(自进化强化学习指令遵循框架),构建一个闭环自进化系统,使指令难度与模型能力相互促进。SEIF包含四个角色:生成递增难度指令的导师、过滤无效指令的过滤器、学习执行指令的跟随者,以及提供奖励信号的裁判。导师与跟随者交替训练,共同演化。在多个模型规模与架构上的实验表明,SEIF能持续提升指令遵循表现,具备强泛化性。进一步分析揭示:充分的早期训练建立基础,配合适度的后期训练可缓解过拟合,获得更优最终性能。代码与数据已公开于https://github.com/Rainier-rq1/SEIF。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Instruction following is a fundamental capability of large language models (LLMs), yet continuously improving this capability remains challenging. Existing methods typically rely either on costly external supervision from humans or strong teacher models, or on self-play training with static-difficulty instructions that cannot evolve as the model's capabilities improve. To address these limitations, we propose SEIF (Self-Evolving Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following), a self-evolving framework for enhancing the instruction-following ability of LLMs. SEIF forms a closed self-evolution loop that improves the model's instruction-following ability, where instruction difficulty evolution and model capability evolution reinforce each other. SEIF consists of four roles: an Instructor that generates increasingly challenging instructions, a Filter that removes conflicting or invalid instructions to ensure data quality, a Follower that learns to follow evolved instructions, and a Judger that provides reward signals for reinforcement learning. The Instructor and Follower are alternately trained and co-evolve throughout the process. Experiments across multiple model scales and architectures show that SEIF consistently improves instruction-following performance, suggesting strong generality. Further analyses reveal the sources of improvement and identify an effective training strategy for self-evolution on open-ended tasks: sufficient early-stage training to build a solid foundation, followed by moderate late-stage training to mitigate overfitting and achieve better final performance. The code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/Rainier-rq1/SEIF.
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