Enabling Scalable Oversight via Self-Evolving Critic

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05727v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:51:52 GMT
• Title: Enabling Scalable Oversight via Self-Evolving Critic
• Authors: Zhengyang Tang, Ziniu Li, Zhenyang Xiao, Tian Ding, Ruoyu Sun, Benyou Wang, Dayiheng Liu, Fei Huang, Tianyu Liu, Bowen Yu, Junyang Lin,
• Abstract summary: SCRIT (Self-evolving CRITic) is a framework that enables genuine self-evolution of critique abilities. It self-improves by training on synthetic data, generated by a contrastive-based self-critic. It achieves up to a 10.3% improvement on critique-correction and error identification benchmarks.
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• Abstract: Despite their remarkable performance, the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) faces a critical challenge in scalable oversight: providing effective feedback for tasks where human evaluation is difficult or where LLMs outperform humans. While there is growing interest in using LLMs for critique, current approaches still rely on human annotations or more powerful models, leaving the issue of enhancing critique capabilities without external supervision unresolved. We introduce SCRIT (Self-evolving CRITic), a framework that enables genuine self-evolution of critique abilities. Technically, SCRIT self-improves by training on synthetic data, generated by a contrastive-based self-critic that uses reference solutions for step-by-step critique, and a self-validation mechanism that ensures critique quality through correction outcomes. Implemented with Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, one of the most powerful LLMs, SCRIT achieves up to a 10.3\% improvement on critique-correction and error identification benchmarks. Our analysis reveals that SCRIT's performance scales positively with data and model size, outperforms alternative approaches, and benefits critically from its self-validation component.

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