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most citedPrinciple-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision

63 citations · 153 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

What Is Missing: Interpretable Ratings for Large Language Model Outputs

Nicholas Stranges, Yimin Yang

Current Large Language Model (LLM) preference learning methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization and Direct Preference Optimization learn from direct rankings or numerical ratin…

cs.LG2025

SPL-LNS: Sampling-Enhanced Large Neighborhood Search for Solving Integer Linear Programs

Shengyu Feng, Zhiqing Sun, Yiming Yang

Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) is a common heuristic in combinatorial optimization that iteratively searches over a large neighborhood of the current solution for a better one. Re…

cs.AI2024

Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning

Ruohong Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li +6

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in vision language models (VLMs) is crucial for improving interpretability and trustworthiness. However, current training recipes lack robust CoT r…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for Problem-Solving with Language Models

Yangzhen Wu, Zhiqing Sun, Shanda Li +2

While the scaling laws of large language models (LLMs) training have been extensively studied, optimal inference configurations of LLMs remain underexplored. We study inference sca…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Lean-STaR: Learning to Interleave Thinking and Proving

Haohan Lin, Zhiqing Sun, Sean Welleck +1

Traditional language model-based theorem proving assumes that by training on a sufficient amount of formal proof data, a model will learn to prove theorems. Our key observation is…

cs.LG2024★ 12 cited

Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment

Yue Wu, Zhiqing Sun, Huizhuo Yuan +3

Standard reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) approaches relying on parametric models like the Bradley-Terry model fall short in capturing the intransitivity and irrat…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Direct Preference Optimization of Video Large Multimodal Models from Language Model Reward

Ruohong Zhang, Liangke Gui, Zhiqing Sun +8

Preference modeling techniques, such as direct preference optimization (DPO), has shown effective in enhancing the generalization abilities of large language model (LLM). However,…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Easy-to-Hard Generalization: Scalable Alignment Beyond Human Supervision

Zhiqing Sun, Longhui Yu, Yikang Shen +4

Current AI alignment methodologies rely on human-provided demonstrations or judgments, and the learned capabilities of AI systems would be upper-bounded by human capabilities as a…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

HaluEval-Wild: Evaluating Hallucinations of Language Models in the Wild

Zhiying Zhu, Yiming Yang, Zhiqing Sun

Hallucinations pose a significant challenge to the reliability of large language models (LLMs) in critical domains. Recent benchmarks designed to assess LLM hallucinations within c…

cs.CL2023

SALMON: Self-Alignment with Instructable Reward Models

Zhiqing Sun, Yikang Shen, Hongxin Zhang +5

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on response demonstrations combined with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) constitutes a powerful paradigm for aligning LLM-based AI ag…

cs.CL2023★ 18 cited

Active Retrieval Augmented Generation

Zhengbao Jiang, Frank F. Xu, Luyu Gao +6

Despite the remarkable ability of large language models (LMs) to comprehend and generate language, they have a tendency to hallucinate and create factually inaccurate output. Augme…

cs.LG2023★ 63 cited

Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision

Zhiqing Sun, Yikang Shen, Qinhong Zhou +5

Recent AI-assistant agents, such as ChatGPT, predominantly rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with human annotations and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to alig…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

A Neural PDE Solver with Temporal Stencil Modeling

Zhiqing Sun, Yiming Yang, Shinjae Yoo

Numerical simulation of non-linear partial differential equations plays a crucial role in modeling physical science and engineering phenomena, such as weather, climate, and aerodyn…

cs.LG2022★ 16 cited

DIMES: A Differentiable Meta Solver for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Ruizhong Qiu, Zhiqing Sun, Yiming Yang

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models have shown promising results in solving NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems. However, most DRL solvers can only scal…

cs.CL2022★ 31 cited

Recitation-Augmented Language Models

Zhiqing Sun, Xuezhi Wang, Yi Tay +2

We propose a new paradigm to help Large Language Models (LLMs) generate more accurate factual knowledge without retrieving from an external corpus, called RECITation-augmented gEne…