让大模型实时适应个人偏好,无需重训
Spectral Souping: A Unified Framework for Online Preference Alignment

- 用谱分解发现模型内在偏好表示,支持高效合并
- 离线训练多个专用策略,线上快速融合生成适配结果
- 适合需要个性化交互的场景,如客服、写作助手
强化学习基于人类反馈(RLHF)虽能对齐大语言模型与整体人类偏好,却难以满足个体用户的多样化、冲突性需求。为此,我们提出Spectral Souping,一种高效的在线偏好对齐统一框架。核心发现是:大语言模型中存在一个通用的谱表示,极适合模型合并。基于此,我们采用两阶段方法:先离线学习一组专注不同细粒度偏好维度的专用策略;再在推理时通过输出或参数合并,快速‘混合’这些策略,实现无需针对特定偏好奖励进行昂贵在线重训练的即时适应。在在线偏好对齐基准测试中,该方法显著优于现有最先进方案,提供了一种可扩展且计算高效的动态适应大模型个体偏好的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) effectively aligns Large Language Models (LLMs) with aggregate human preferences but often fails to address the diverse and conflicting needs of individual users. To overcome this issue, we introduce Spectral Souping, a unified framework for efficient, online preference alignment. Our contribution is the discovery of a universal spectral representation within LLMs, which is proven to be highly amenable to model merging. This theoretical insight enables a two-phase methodology: we first learn a basis of specialized policies offline, each focused on a distinct, fine-grained preference dimension. An online adaptation algorithm then efficiently ``soups'' these policies at inference time, either by merging their outputs or parameters, enabling rapid model adaptation without the need for costly online retraining w.r.t. tailored preference rewards. Experiments on online preference alignment benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves significant performance improvements over existing state-of-the-art approaches, presenting a scalable and computationally efficient solution for dynamically adapting LLMs to individual user preferences.
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