Pareto-Optimal Offline Reinforcement Learning via Smooth Tchebycheff Scalarization
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arXiv:2604.13175v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models can be aligned with human preferences through offline reinforcement learning (RL) on small labeled datasets. While single-objective alignment is well-studied, many real-world applications demand the simultaneous optimization of multiple conflicting rewards, e.g. activity and specificity for proteins, or helpfulness and harmlessness for chatbots. Prior work has largely relied on linear reward scalarization, which provably fails to recover non-convex regions of the Pareto front. In this paper, instead of scalarizing
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.13175v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models can be aligned with human preferences through offline reinforcement learning (RL) on small labeled datasets.
- While single-objective alignment is well-studied, many real-world applications demand the simultaneous optimization of multiple conflicting rewards, e.g.
- activity and specificity for proteins, or helpfulness and harmlessness for chatbots.
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