Meet SynPO: A Self-Driven Paradigm Using Synthetic Preference Data for Model Alignment

Alignment with human preferences has led to significant progress in producing honest, safe, and useful responses from large language models (LLMs). Through this alignment process, models are better equipped to understand and represent what humans consider appropriate or important in their interactions. But keeping LLMs moving forward in line with these inclinations is a difficult task. The process of collecting the type of high-quality data necessary for this alignment is expensive and time-consuming. It is challenging to scale up and maintain over time, as it often requires a lot of human ingenuity and involvement.

A unique technique known as SynPO (Synthetic Preference Optimization) has been created to overcome these obstacles. SynPO is a self-boosting method that improves LLM alignment without relying heavily on human annotations by creating synthetic data. By using an iterative process to produce and improve synthetic cues, this strategy allows the model to learn and improve with each cycle. An automatic generator and a response enhancer are its two main parts.

1. Automatic Prompt Generator: This part uses the built-in capabilities of the model to produce a variety of prompts. Instead of relying on complicated data sets or external human input, it uses LLM itself to provide a variety of signals that trigger various scenarios and responses. This generation procedure creates a richer training environment by allowing the model to investigate a variety of scenarios and difficulties.

1. Response Enhancer: The response enhancer significantly improves model results by improving the responses produced throughout each cycle. Guides the LLM to provide better results that are more in line with the expected results by pointing out places where the model's initial responses are inadequate and making necessary adjustments. Educate the model to achieve that level of quality with minor adjustments after helping it identify what constitutes a good answer.

SynPO combines these two elements to allow LLMs to learn on their own from synthetic feedback loops. The model constantly improves in understanding and meeting user expectations by training on the incentives it receives to produce better responses. This autonomous method is more efficient and scalable as it dramatically reduces the need for manual data labeling and preference collection.

SynPO has proven to be beneficial in several crucial performance domains. LLMs like Llama3-8B and Mistral-7B greatly improve instruction following after just four iterations of this self-improvement cycle. In particular, these models significantly improve their ability to generate desired reactions, as evidenced by win rate increases of over 22.1% on evaluation benchmarks such as AlpacaEval 2.0 and ArenaHard. A 3.2% to 5.0% increase in average scores on the Open LLM leaderboard, a commonly used indicator of LLM ability, has shown that SynPO helps further improve LLM capabilities across a range of jobs.

The team has summarized its main contribution as follows.

1. SynPO is a self-driving process that allows LLMs to iteratively produce high-quality synthetic training data. Improves the variety and caliber of generated prompts and responses by eliminating the requirement for human-annotated preference data.

1. Using recurring training cycles, SynPO helps LLMs improve their results. It allows LLMs to learn from feedback generation and progressively increase their capabilities by using pre- and post-refinement responses as synthetic preference pairs.

1. SynPO improves LLMs' overall performance as well as their ability to follow instructions. The LLMs show notable progress in three to four iterations, demonstrating that this method is successful in increasing the capabilities of the model.

In conclusion, SynPO is a viable way to improve LLMs without incurring the high expenses associated with conventional data collection techniques. Iterative self-training and synthetic data allow LLMs to continually evolve and adapt, becoming more aligned with human preferences while retaining adaptability for a variety of applications.

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