arXiv:2605.30808cs.CRcs.AI2026-05中稿 · ICML被引 1

用差分隐私生成模拟偏好数据,保护用户隐私同时保持大模型对齐效果。

Differentially Private Preference Data Synthesis for Large Language Model Alignment

论文配图:Differentially Private Preference Data Synthesis for Large Language Model Alignment
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 基于布鲁特-泰瑞模型与聚类奖励结构,学习私有偏好数据
  • 在强差分隐私保障下,合成数据使模型对齐性能接近真实数据
  • 首个面向LLM对齐的差分隐私偏好数据生成方法,适合隐私敏感场景

大语言模型的偏好对齐是确保输出符合人类价值观的关键后训练步骤。然而,使用真实人类偏好数据进行训练会引发隐私问题,因这些数据常包含敏感用户提问和人工判断。为此,我们提出DPPrefSyn,一种生成差分隐私(DP)合成偏好数据的新算法,以实现隐私保护的偏好对齐。DPPrefSyn基于布鲁特-泰瑞偏好模型和成对人类偏好数据的内在几何结构,首先在私有数据上学习一个具有正式差分隐私保证的底层偏好模型,然后利用该模型与公开提示词合成高质量偏好数据。通过挖掘每簇奖励模型的共享线性结构,有效捕捉私有数据中的异质偏好,并借助差分隐私主成分分析(DP-PCA)提升学习精度。大量实验表明,DPPrefSyn在强差分隐私约束下仍能实现具有竞争力的对齐性能。这些结果凸显了合成偏好数据作为广泛应用场景中隐私保护对齐的实用替代方案的潜力。据我们所知,这是首个为大语言模型对齐生成差分隐私合成偏好数据的工作。代码已开源:https://github.com/gfengyu/Differentially-Private-Preference-Data-Synthesis。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Preference alignment is a crucial post-training step for large language models (LLMs) to ensure their outputs align with human values. However, post-training on real human preference data raises privacy concerns, as these datasets often contain sensitive user prompts and human judgments. To address this, we propose DPPrefSyn, a novel algorithm for generating differentially private (DP) synthetic preference data to enable privacy-preserving preference alignment. DPPrefSyn is a principled framework grounded in the Bradley-Terry preference model and the intrinsic geometric structure of pairwise human preference data. It first learns an underlying preference model from private data with formal differential privacy guarantees, and then leverages the learned model together with public prompts to synthesize high-quality preference data. It exploits the shared linear structure of per-cluster reward models to effectively capture heterogeneous human preferences in private datasets, and leverages DP Principal Component Analysis (DP-PCA) to improve learning accuracy. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that DPPrefSyn achieves competitive alignment performance under strong DP guarantees. These findings highlight the potential of synthetic preference data as a practical alternative for privacy-preserving preference alignment across a broad range of applications. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to generate DP synthetic preference data for LLM alignment. Our code is available at https://github.com/gfengyu/Differentially-Private-Preference-Data-Synthesis.

隐私保护偏好对齐差分隐私合成数据

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