Adaptive Margin RLHF via Preference over Preferences 文章

arXiv:2509.22851v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Margin-based optimization is fundamental to improving generalization and robustness in classification tasks. In the context of reward model learning from preferences within Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), existing methods typically rely on no margins, fixed margins, or margins that are simplistic functions of preference ratings. However, such formulations often fail to account for the varying strengths of different preferences or they rely on noisy margin information derived from preference ratings. Furthermore, many existing methods that use adaptive margins assume access to accurate preference scores, which can be difficult for humans to provide reliably. We propose leveraging preferences over preferences, that is, annotations indicating which of two preferences reflects a stronger distinction, to infer adaptive margins on a per-datapoint basis.