arXiv:2606.01561cs.AIcs.LG2026-06中稿 · ICML

解决大模型对齐中偏好优化的不稳定性问题,提升生成结果多样性与可靠性。

S-SPPO: Semantic-Calibrated Self-Play Preference Optimization

论文配图:S-SPPO: Semantic-Calibrated Self-Play Preference Optimization
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  • 引入双空间语义校准机制,动态调整胜率目标并增强隐空间多样性。
  • 在AlpacaEval 2.0上实现52.19%胜率,避免策略退化,无需额外人工标注。
  • 适合关注大模型对齐、偏好学习与生成质量控制的研究者和工程师。

将大语言模型(LLMs)对齐人类偏好通常通过直接偏好优化(DPO)实现。然而,标准的布拉德利-特瑞蒂(Bradley-Terry)DPO实例在建模人类偏好中的非传递性时存在局限。近期工作提出自对弈偏好优化(SPPO),通过训练自生成的胜负对迭代优化策略。我们发现SPPO存在关键不稳定性:当偏好判别器对语义相近的回答给予过高置信度胜利时,策略易发生退化。为此,我们提出S-SPPO,一种双空间语义校准框架:(i) 通过语义门控进行监督校准,随语义重叠增加逐步降低胜率目标至最大熵基线;(ii) 通过潜在空间排斥实现表示校准,防止流形坍塌,保持选择与拒绝样本间的隐空间多样性。理论上,校准机制保持常和博弈结构,促进收敛至纳什均衡。实验表明,S-SPPO避免了先前方法的性能下降,在Llama-3-8B上于AlpacaEval 2.0上取得52.19%胜率和47.46%长度控制胜率,且训练期间未使用额外人工标注偏好。代码将开源于https://github.com/xiwenc1/s-sppo。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences is often formulated via Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). However, the standard Bradley-Terry instantiation of DPO is limited in modeling common departures from transitivity in human preferences. To address this, recent work has introduced Self-Play Preference Optimization (SPPO), which iteratively refines the policy by training on self-generated win-lose pairs. Our investigation, however, reveals a critical instability in SPPO: the optimization is prone to policy degeneration when the preference oracle assigns overly confident wins to semantically indistinguishable responses. To mitigate this, we propose S-SPPO, a dual-space semantic calibration framework comprising: i) Supervision Calibration via semantic gating, which anneals win rate targets toward the maximum-entropy baseline as semantic overlap increases; and ii) Representation Calibration via latent repulsion to enforce geometric diversity to prevent manifold collapse and maintain latent diversity between chosen and rejected samples. Theoretically, we show that the calibration preserves the constant-sum game structure, facilitating convergence to a Nash Equilibrium. Empirically, S-SPPO avoids the performance degradation seen in prior methods, achieving 52.19% win rate and 47.46% length-controlled win rate on AlpacaEval 2.0 with Llama-3-8B, without using additional human-annotated preferences during training. The code will be available at https://github.com/xiwenc1/s-sppo.

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