Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

Rafailov et al., 2023, Direct Preference Optimization (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023))

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6.2 Can DPO scale to real preference datasets?

  1. How did DPO perform on TL;DR summarization and Anthropic HH dialogue?
    Summarization (GPT-J): about 61% GPT-4 win rate against reference summaries vs 57% for PPO at its best temperature, and far more robust to sampling temperature. Dialogue (Pythia-2.8B): the only efficient method that beat the dataset’s preferred responses, matching the costly best-of-128 baseline.

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