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Aligning Large Language Models with Human Feedback: Mathematical Foundations and Algorithm Design
Siliang Zeng, Luca Viano, Chenliang Li +6
This article provides an introduction to the mathematical foundations and algorithmic frameworks used to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with human intentions, preferences, and…
When Does On-Policy Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning
Luca Viano, Antoine Moulin, Audrey Huang +3
Imitation learning (IL)---training an agent to replicate expert behavior from demonstrations---underpins applications from robotics to language model training. Standard approaches…
Split the Differences, Pool the Rest: Provably Efficient Multi-Objective Imitation
Ziyad Sheebaelhamd, Luca Viano, Volkan Cevher +1
This work investigates multi-objective imitation learning: the problem of recovering policies that lie on the Pareto front given demonstrations from multiple Pareto-optimal experts…
Beyond Binary Preferences: A Principled Framework for Reward Modeling with Ordinal Feedback
Amirhossein Afsharrad, Ruida Zhou, Luca Viano +2
Reward modeling is crucial for aligning large language models with human preferences, yet current approaches lack a principled mathematical framework for leveraging ordinal prefere…
Multi-agent imitation learning with function approximation: Linear Markov games and beyond
Luca Viano, Till Freihaut, Emanuele Nevali +3
In this work, we present the first theoretical analysis of multi-agent imitation learning (MAIL) in linear Markov games where both the transition dynamics and each agent's reward f…
Provably avoiding over-optimization in Direct Preference Optimization without knowing the data distribution
Adam Barla, Emanuele Nevali, Luca Viano +1
We introduce PEPO (Pessimistic Ensemble based Preference Optimization), a single-step Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)-like algorithm to mitigate the well-known over-optimizati…
Direct Preference Optimization with Rating Information: Practical Algorithms and Provable Gains
Luca Viano, Ruida Zhou, Yifan Sun +4
The class of direct preference optimization (DPO) algorithms has emerged as a promising approach for solving the alignment problem in foundation models. These algorithms work with…