Data-Centric Human Preference Optimization with Rationales

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14477v3
• Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 17:32:08 GMT
• Title: Data-Centric Human Preference Optimization with Rationales
• Authors: Hoang Anh Just, Ming Jin, Anit Sahu, Huy Phan, Ruoxi Jia,
• Abstract summary: Reinforcement learning from human feedback plays a crucial role in aligning language models towards human preferences. This work shifts focus to improving preference learning through a data-centric approach. We propose enriching existing preference datasets with machine-generated rationales that explain the reasons behind choices.
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• Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback plays a crucial role in aligning language models towards human preferences, traditionally represented through comparisons between pairs or sets of responses within a given context. While many studies have enhanced algorithmic techniques to optimize learning from such data, this work shifts focus to improving preference learning through a data-centric approach. Specifically, we propose enriching existing preference datasets with machine-generated rationales that explain the reasons behind choices. We develop a simple and principled framework to augment current preference learning methods with rationale information. Our comprehensive analysis highlights how rationales enhance learning efficiency. Extensive experiments reveal that rationale-enriched preference learning offers multiple advantages: it improves data efficiency, accelerates convergence to higher-performing models, and reduces verbosity bias and hallucination. Furthermore, this framework is versatile enough to integrate with various preference optimization algorithms. Overall, our findings highlight the potential of re-imagining data design for preference learning, demonstrating that even freely available machine-generated rationales can significantly boost performance across multiple dimensions. The code repository is available at https: //github.com/reds-lab/preference-learning-with-rationales

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