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Self-Improving Pretraining: using post-trained models to pretrain better models
Ellen Xiaoqing Tan, Jack Lanchantin, Shehzaad Dhuliawala +9
Large language models are classically trained in stages: pretraining on raw text followed by post-training for instruction following and reasoning. However, this separation creates…
K-Function: Joint Pronunciation Transcription and Feedback for Evaluating Kids Language Function
Shuhe Li, Chenxu Guo, Jiachen Lian +18
Evaluating young children's language is challenging for automatic speech recognizers due to high-pitched voices, prolonged sounds, and limited data. We introduce K-Function, a fram…
Decoupling Strategy and Execution in Task-Focused Dialogue via Goal-Oriented Preference Optimization
Jingyi Xu, Xingyu Ren, Zhoupeng Shou +2
Large language models show potential in task-oriented dialogue systems, yet existing training methods often rely on token-level likelihood or preference optimization, which poorly…
Self-Consistency Preference Optimization
Archiki Prasad, Weizhe Yuan, Richard Yuanzhe Pang +6
Self-alignment, whereby models learn to improve themselves without human annotation, is a rapidly growing research area. However, existing techniques often fail to improve complex…
Bridging Offline and Online Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
Jack Lanchantin, Angelica Chen, Janice Lan +9
We investigate the effectiveness of reinforcement learning methods for finetuning large language models when transitioning from offline to semi-online to fully online regimes for b…
Self-Rewarding Language Models
Weizhe Yuan, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Kyunghyun Cho +4
We posit that to achieve superhuman agents, future models require superhuman feedback in order to provide an adequate training signal. Current approaches commonly train reward mode…