arXiv:2606.00357cs.AI2026-06

用多个弱模型对比信号,提升强模型性能

From "Weak" Signals to Strong Models: Preference Delta Aggregation with LoRA Merging

论文配图:From "Weak" Signals to Strong Models: Preference Delta Aggregation with LoRA Merging
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  • 从多组弱-更弱模型对比中提取偏好差异,生成LoRA适配器
  • 通过几何对齐融合技术,实现多信号有效聚合,提升推理与搜索能力
  • 适合想低成本优化大模型的从业者,尤其关注指令微调场景

训练高性能大语言模型需高质量监督信号,但此类数据稀缺。近期研究发现,由弱模型对(如Qwen3 4B vs. 1.7B)提供的成对偏好数据,虽单个响应质量有限,但其相对质量差异可作为有效的“弱”信号。本文提出偏好差异聚合(PDA)框架:从每对弱-更弱模型中提取偏好差值,以偏好优化方式训练对应的LoRA适配器,并通过LoRA融合聚合。为缓解融合过程中的方向干扰,引入几何对齐融合(GAM),在聚合前对齐适配器子空间,增强多样性差异的鲁棒组合。在知识推理与智能搜索基准测试中,多“弱”信号聚合显著超越单一信号,性能随信号增加持续提升。PDA+GAM使强模型在知识推理和智能搜索上平均分别提升6.8和7.3点,优于所有单信号与多信号基线,最优单信号基线提升2.1和4.3点。分析表明,性能增益源于不同偏好差值所编码互补能力的有效整合。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Training strong large language models (LLMs) requires high-quality supervision, which is often scarce. Recent work shows that paired preference data from weak-weaker model pairs (e.g., Qwen3 4B over 1.7B), despite the limited quality of individual responses, can provide an effective supervision signal through relative quality deltas, which we term a "weak" signal. This motivates a key research question: can multiple "weak" signals be constructively aggregated for improving strong models (e.g., Qwen3 8B)? To this end, we propose Preference Delta Aggregation (PDA), the first framework that derives a preference delta from each weak-weaker model pair, instantiates it as a LoRA adapter learned through preference optimization, and aggregates the resulting deltas via LoRA merging. To further mitigate directional interference during LoRA merging, we introduce Geometric Alignment Merging (GAM), a geometry-aware merging method that aligns adapter subspaces before aggregation, enabling more robust composition of diverse deltas. Evaluations on knowledge reasoning and agentic search benchmarks show that aggregating multiple "weak" signals pushes performance beyond any single signal, with further gains as additional signals are incorporated. Correspondingly, PDA with GAM improves the strong model by 6.8 and 7.3 points on average for knowledge reasoning and agentic search, respectively. It outperforms all single-delta and multi-delta baselines, exceeding the best single-delta baseline by 2.1 and 4.3 points. Further analysis attributes these gains to the effective composition of complementary capabilities encoded across distinct preference deltas.

大模型微调偏好学习LoRA融合模型增强

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