DPO-RLHF equivalence holds only conditionally on the optimal policy preferring human-preferred responses; otherwise DPO optimizes relative advantage and can prefer worse outputs, addressed by introducing CPO.
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Standard DPO surrogates are inconsistent for equicontinuous neural nets; SA-DPO provides structure-aware H-consistency bounds by adapting margins to semantic distance and shows heavy-tailed losses yield superior guarantees for capacity-bounded models via the Margin-Capacity Profile.
The paper derives a Θ(1/√(n log n)) hypothesis testing rate under strategic annotator behavior and shows that high-certainty, format-similar golden questions better reveal annotation quality than standard checks.
KTO aligns LLMs by directly maximizing prospect-theoretic utility on binary signals and matches or exceeds preference-based methods like DPO from 1B to 30B parameters.
Iterative self-rewarding via LLM-as-Judge in DPO training on Llama 2 70B improves instruction following and self-evaluation, outperforming GPT-4 on AlpacaEval 2.0.
CROP uses compositional reasoning and expert preference alignment in VLMs to produce aesthetic crops that match human experts more closely than previous methods.
REGLU guides LoRA-based unlearning via representation subspaces and orthogonal regularization to outperform prior methods on forget-retain trade-off in LLM benchmarks.
A single attacker can use strategic upvoting and downvoting on language model outputs to inject facts, security flaws, or fake news that persist in the model for all users after preference tuning.
Develops self-consistency monitoring for preference annotators and derives sample-complexity bounds showing linear contracts achieve near-ideal performance faster than binary ones under continuous actions.
PGT optimizes latent goal embeddings for frozen policies via trajectory-level preference objectives, reporting 72-81.6% relative gains on 17 Minecraft tasks and 13.4% better OOD performance than fine-tuning.
Agent Q integrates MCTS-guided search, self-critique, and off-policy DPO to train LLM agents that outperform behavior cloning and reinforced fine-tuning baselines in WebShop and achieve up to 95.4% success in real-world booking scenarios.
Empirical analysis shows scaling inference compute via strategies like tree search can be more efficient than scaling model parameters, with 7B models plus novel search outperforming 34B models.
Shell-LCC models the high-quality data manifold as an isotropic shell to derive cost-free reward signals that improve realism and high-frequency details in text-to-video generation.
POPI distills user preferences into reusable natural-language summaries via a shared inference model and conditions a generator on them, trained jointly with RL to improve personalization quality while cutting context length by up to 10x on benchmarks.
Derives SimPO from MaxEnt RL and reports that MaxEnt RL in online RLHF exhibits frequent overoptimization and unstable KL dynamics across scales, unlike stable KL-constrained baselines.
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Conditional Equivalence of DPO and RLHF: Implicit Assumption, Failure Modes, and Provable Alignment
DPO-RLHF equivalence holds only conditionally on the optimal policy preferring human-preferred responses; otherwise DPO optimizes relative advantage and can prefer worse outputs, addressed by introducing CPO.
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Mind the Gap: Structure-Aware Consistency in Preference Learning
Standard DPO surrogates are inconsistent for equicontinuous neural nets; SA-DPO provides structure-aware H-consistency bounds by adapting margins to semantic distance and shows heavy-tailed losses yield superior guarantees for capacity-bounded models via the Margin-Capacity Profile.
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Incentivizing High-Quality Human Annotations with Golden Questions
The paper derives a Θ(1/√(n log n)) hypothesis testing rate under strategic annotator behavior and shows that high-certainty, format-similar golden questions better reveal annotation quality than standard checks.
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KTO: Model Alignment as Prospect Theoretic Optimization
KTO aligns LLMs by directly maximizing prospect-theoretic utility on binary signals and matches or exceeds preference-based methods like DPO from 1B to 30B parameters.
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Self-Rewarding Language Models
Iterative self-rewarding via LLM-as-Judge in DPO training on Llama 2 70B improves instruction following and self-evaluation, outperforming GPT-4 on AlpacaEval 2.0.
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CROP: Expert-Aligned Image Cropping via Compositional Reasoning and Optimizing Preference
CROP uses compositional reasoning and expert preference alignment in VLMs to produce aesthetic crops that match human experts more closely than previous methods.
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Representation-Guided Parameter-Efficient LLM Unlearning
REGLU guides LoRA-based unlearning via representation subspaces and orthogonal regularization to outperform prior methods on forget-retain trade-off in LLM benchmarks.
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LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users
A single attacker can use strategic upvoting and downvoting on language model outputs to inject facts, security flaws, or fake news that persist in the model for all users after preference tuning.
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How Humans Help LLMs: Assessing and Incentivizing Human Preference Annotators
Develops self-consistency monitoring for preference annotators and derives sample-complexity bounds showing linear contracts achieve near-ideal performance faster than binary ones under continuous actions.
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Preference Goal Tuning: Post-Training as Latent Control for Frozen Policies
PGT optimizes latent goal embeddings for frozen policies via trajectory-level preference objectives, reporting 72-81.6% relative gains on 17 Minecraft tasks and 13.4% better OOD performance than fine-tuning.
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Agent Q: Advanced Reasoning and Learning for Autonomous AI Agents
Agent Q integrates MCTS-guided search, self-critique, and off-policy DPO to train LLM agents that outperform behavior cloning and reinforced fine-tuning baselines in WebShop and achieve up to 95.4% success in real-world booking scenarios.
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Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for Problem-Solving with Language Models
Empirical analysis shows scaling inference compute via strategies like tree search can be more efficient than scaling model parameters, with 7B models plus novel search outperforming 34B models.
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Your Data Manifold is Secretly a Reward Model: Shell-LCC for Text-to-Video Generation
Shell-LCC models the high-quality data manifold as an isotropic shell to derive cost-free reward signals that improve realism and high-frequency details in text-to-video generation.
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POPI: Personalizing LLMs via Optimized Natural Language Preference Inference
POPI distills user preferences into reusable natural-language summaries via a shared inference model and conditions a generator on them, trained jointly with RL to improve personalization quality while cutting context length by up to 10x on benchmarks.
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Failure Modes of Maximum Entropy RLHF
Derives SimPO from MaxEnt RL and reports that MaxEnt RL in online RLHF exhibits frequent overoptimization and unstable KL dynamics across scales, unlike stable KL-constrained baselines.
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