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Meta-Rewarding Language Models:Self-Improving Alignment with LLM-as-a-Meta-Judge (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A model grades its own answers, then grades those grades to sharpen its judging skill, needing no human labels. Unlike earlier self-grading that stalls quickly, this nearly doubled its win rate against a strong chat model, reaching 39.4%.

Abstract · Meta-Rewarding Language Models: Self-Improving Alignment with LLM-as-a-Meta-Judge

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly surpassing human knowledge in many domains. While improving these models traditionally relies on costly human data, recent self-rewarding mechanisms (Yuan et al., 2024) have shown that LLMs can improve by judging their own responses instead of relying on human labelers. However, existing methods have primarily focused on improving model responses rather than judgment capabilities, resulting in rapid saturation during iterative training. To address this issue, we introduce a novel Meta-Rewarding step to the self-improvement process, where the model judges its own judgements and uses that feedback to refine its judgment skills. Surprisingly, this unsupervised approach improves the model's ability to judge {\em and} follow instructions, as demonstrated by a win rate improvement of Llama-3-8B-Instruct from 22.9% to 39.4% on AlpacaEval 2, and 20.6% to 29.1% on Arena-Hard. These results strongly suggest the potential for self-improving models without human supervision.

Tianhao Wu, Weizhe Yuan, Olga Golovneva, Jing Xu, Yuandong Tian, Jiantao Jiao, Jason Weston, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar
arXiv:2407.19594 · cs.CL, cs.AI · submitted Jul 28, 2024 · updated Jul 30, 2024
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