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Nikita Surnachev
dblp:375/1094
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › preference optimization
direct preference optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › alignment
offline alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
preference optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › alignment
reward overoptimization |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good Alignment · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
trust region · 0.9KTO · 0.9IPO · 0.9DPO · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Learn Your Reference Model for Real Good AlignmentabstractDespite the fact that offline methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) alignment do not require a direct reward model, they remain susceptible to overoptimization. This issue arises when the trained model deviates excessively from the reference policy, leading to a decrease in sample quality. We propose a novel approach of offline alignment methods, called Trust Region (including variants TR-DPO, TR-IPO, TR-KTO), which dynamically updates the reference policy throughout the training process. Our results show that TR alignment methods effectively mitigate overoptimization, enabling models to maintain strong performance even when substantially deviating from the initial reference policy. We demonstrate the efficacy of these approaches not only through toy examples that exhibit reduced overoptimization, but also through direct, side-by-side comparisons in specific tasks such as helpful and harmless dialogue, as well as summarization, where they surpass conventional methods. Additionally, we report significant improvements in general-purpose assistant setups with the Llama3 model on the AlpacaEval 2 and Arena-Hard benchmarks, highlighting the advantages of Trust Region methods over classical approaches. Alexey Gorbatovski, Boris Shaposhnikov, Alexey Malakhov, Nikita Surnachev, Yaroslav Aksenov, Ian Maksimov, Nikita Balagansky, Daniil Gavrilov |
ICLR | 4 |