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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic

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This paper cites DPO and reference approaches For DPO we see a simi- lar derivation.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic DPO and reference approaches For DPO we see a simi- lar derivation

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This paper cites Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2

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This paper cites Prompting is programming: A query language for large language models.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Prompting is programming: A query language for large language models

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This paper cites However, the semantics of the resulting formulas are less transparent and often hidden in the weights.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic However, the semantics of the resulting formulas are less transparent and often hidden in the weights

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This paper cites (2024)), all of which were originally implemented using the logistic log-loss, i.e., each ℓx = − log σ(βρθ).

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic (2024)), all of which were originally implemented using the logistic log-loss, i.e., each ℓx = − log σ(βρθ)

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This paper cites Declarative Design of Neural Predicates in Neuro-Symbolic Systems.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Declarative Design of Neural Predicates in Neuro-Symbolic Systems

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This paper cites New Desiderata for Direct Preference Optimization.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic New Desiderata for Direct Preference Optimization

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines

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This paper cites What Makes Good Data for Alignment? A Comprehensive Study of Automatic Data Selection in Instruction Tuning.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic What Makes Good Data for Alignment? A Comprehensive Study of Automatic Data Selection in Instruction Tuning

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This paper cites Smaug: Fixing Failure Modes of Preference Optimisation with DPO-Positive.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Smaug: Fixing Failure Modes of Preference Optimisation with DPO-Positive

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This paper cites Online DPO: Online Direct Preference Optimization with Fast-Slow Chasing.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Online DPO: Online Direct Preference Optimization with Fast-Slow Chasing

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This paper cites Unintentional Unalignment: Likelihood Displacement in Direct Preference Optimization.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Unintentional Unalignment: Likelihood Displacement in Direct Preference Optimization

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This paper cites Logic of Differentiable Logics: Towards a Uniform Semantics of DL.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Logic of Differentiable Logics: Towards a Uniform Semantics of DL

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This paper cites On the Independence Assumption in Neurosymbolic Learning.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic On the Independence Assumption in Neurosymbolic Learning

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This paper cites Aligning Large Language Models with Human: A Survey.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Aligning Large Language Models with Human: A Survey

Reference 22

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This paper cites Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation

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This paper cites Direct Preference Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Direct Preference Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models

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This paper cites RRHF: Rank Responses to Align Language Models with Human Feedback without tears.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic RRHF: Rank Responses to Align Language Models with Human Feedback without tears

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic SLiC-HF: Sequence Likelihood Calibration with Human Feedback

Reference 28

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences

Reference 29

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This paper cites Original losses Further details of the original losses in Table 2, along with other variants such as R-DPO (Park et al., 2024), ODPO (Amini et al.,.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Original losses Further details of the original losses in Table 2, along with other variants such as R-DPO (Park et al., 2024), ODPO (Amini et al.,

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Figure 8 shows the Boolean semantics of DPO/SimPO and some novel variants based on the ref- erence form of ORPO (ℓORPO-ref), qfUNL (ℓqfUNL-ref) and l5 (ℓl5-ref)

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This paper cites Specifically, we focus on losses around the known lossℓCPO, which we treat as a natural baseline to compare against.

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Specifically, we focus on losses around the known lossℓCPO, which we treat as a natural baseline to compare against

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic While these experiments are small scale and limited in scope, they are merely meant to suggest possible uses our frame- work and open questions

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic To avoid repeating the process of instruction tuning, we started from the trained Qwen model released in the TRL library6

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic This suggests that different types of preference data rely on a different semantics of preference, which requires a tuning approach that’s tailored to those differences

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Self-Exploring Language Models: Active Preference Elicitation for Online Alignment

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Generalized Preference Optimization: A Unified Approach to Offline Alignment

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Language Model Cascades

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Insights into Alignment: Evaluating DPO and its Variants Across Multiple Tasks

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Adversarially Regularising Neural NLI Models to Integrate Logical Background Knowledge

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Hybrid Preferences: Learning to Route Instances for Human vs. AI Feedback

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Preference Tuning with Human Feedback on Language, Speech, and Vision Tasks: A Survey

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic A General Theoretical Paradigm to Understand Learning from Human Preferences

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Direct Language Model Alignment from Online AI Feedback

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Logic Tensor Networks for Semantic Image Interpretation

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Qwen Technical Report

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Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic Logically Consistent Language Models via Neuro-Symbolic Integration

Reference 2024

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LLM Enhancement with Domain Expert Mental Model to Reduce LLM Hallucination with Causal Prompt Engineering cites this paper.

LLM Enhancement with Domain Expert Mental Model to Reduce LLM Hallucination with Causal Prompt Engineering Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic

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