跨语言偏好优化框架,用英文知识提升其他语言模型表现
Language Chain in Alignment: Cross-lingual Ranking Preference Optimization

- 构建中英双语并行偏好对的分层结构,联合优化跨语言与同语言偏好
- 在五种语言上验证,显著提升指令遵循与知识使用能力,优于标准方法
- 支持多种权重设置,稳定增强奖励差距与优质回复概率,适合多语言场景
大型语言模型的对齐严重依赖以英语为中心的高质量偏好数据,常导致其他语言性能不佳。本文提出跨语言排序偏好优化(CRPO),利用英语中的强偏好知识,促进目标语言的偏好对齐。通过在目标语言与英语的并行偏好对中设计分层结构,联合优化内部与跨语言偏好,从而增强语言适配性与输出质量。基于LambdaLoss框架,CRPO超越传统二元比较,提供多候选响应的相对排序信号。在五种不同资源规模的语言上实验表明,CRPO在指令遵循和知识利用能力上持续优于标准方法。不同权重方案下的稳健性能提升进一步验证了分层设计在多语言环境中的有效性。此外,研究发现CRPO显著提高奖励差距与理想响应的对数概率,有助于构建更稳定的跨语言偏好流形。代码已公开于https://github.com/dltmddbs100/CRPO。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The alignment of Large Language Models heavily relies on English-centric high-quality preference data, which often leads to suboptimal performance in other languages. In this paper, we propose Cross-lingual Ranking Preference Optimization~(CRPO), a novel framework that leverages robust preference knowledge from English to facilitate preference alignment in the target language. We design a hierarchical structure within parallel preference pairs across the target language and English to jointly optimize intra- and inter-lingual preferences, thereby enhancing language adaptation and output quality. Building on the LambdaLoss framework, CRPO goes beyond the binary comparison based optimization by providing a relative ranking signal across multiple candidate responses. Our experiments across five languages with varying resource scales demonstrate that CRPO consistently outperforms standard approaches in both instruction-following and knowledge utilization capability. Notably, the robust performance gains observed across various weighting schemes further validate the empirical effectiveness of our hierarchical design in a multilingual setup. Furthermore, our findings highlight that CRPO significantly improves both reward margins and the log-probability of desirable responses, contributing to a more stable preference manifold for cross-lingual alignment. Our code is available at https://github.com/dltmddbs100/CRPO.
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