Mechanism

Batched on-policy iterative algorithm that samples KK outputs from the current policy πθt\pi_{\theta_t}, compares them against each other and the gold/teacher output using a general pairwise win-rate oracle P(yi≻yj)\mathbb{P}(y_i \succ y_j) (which need not satisfy Bradley-Terry transitivity!), and regresses internal log-ratios toward the empirical win-rate margin.

References

  1. Direct Nash Optimization: Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve with General Preferences ↗

    Corby Rosset, Ching-An Cheng, Arindam Mitra, Michael Santacroce, Ahmed Awadallah, Tengyang Xie · 2024