arXiv AI

RSPO: Regularized Self-Play Alignment of Large Language Models

arXiv AI
Jun 2

S-SPPO: Semantic-Calibrated Self-Play Preference Optimization

arXiv:2606. 01561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences is often formulated via Direct Preference Optimization (DPO).

By Xiwen Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Jingjing Wang, Peijie Qiu, Zhipeng Wang, Huayu Li, ZhengXiao He, Xuanzhao Dong, Prayag Tiwari, Mingkun Xu, Yujian Xiong, Feng Luo, Abolfazl Razi, Brendan Hogan Rappazzo, Anderson Schneider, Yuriy Nevmyvaka
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Chasing Moving Targets with Online Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Safer Language Models

arXiv:2506. 07468v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional large language model (LLM) safety alignment relies on a reactive, disjoint loop: attackers exploit a static model, then defenders patch exposed vulnerabilities.

By Mickel Liu, Liwei Jiang, Yancheng Liang, Simon Shaolei Du, Yejin Choi, Tim Althoff, Natasha Jaques
arXiv AI
Oct 2

Benchmarking Prompt Optimization of Large Language Models With Chess

arXiv:2610. 00416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models becomes increasingly challenging as their capabilities advance: benchmarks can saturate, public test sets risk contamination, and assessing harder tasks can require expensive grading or execution infrastructure.

By Timoth\'ee Lesort, Alejandra L\'opez de Aberasturi G\'omez, Tristan Karch, Tom Veniat, Philippe Modard, Karl Tuyls, Ludovic Denoyer
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

Scaling Self-Play with Self-Guidance

arXiv:2604. 20209v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM self-play algorithms are notable in that, in principle, nothing bounds their learning: a Conjecturer model creates problems for a Solver, and both improve together.

By Luke Bailey, Kaiyue Wen, Kefan Dong, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Tengyu Ma
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Swiss-Knife: A Framework for Reconfigurable Externalised Multi-Objective Alignment at Decode Time

Swiss-Knife is a framework that extends decode‑time alignment for frozen language models by treating the alignment specification as a runtime object. It introduces hot‑swappable scoring blades, a batch normaliser, a pairwise aggregation operator, and a selection rule, and characterises admissible aggregation operators with a representation theorem. In experiments, Swiss‑Knife paired with DPO‑LoRA blades and an uncertainty‑aware pairwise tournament outperforms six existing decode‑time methods, achieving a higher harmonic F1 score, lower refusal rate, and faster objective reconfiguration.

By Agnibh Karmakar, Mayur Parvatikar, Shreyash Dhoot, Amit Dhanda, Aman Chadha, Kapil Wanaskar, Vinija Jain, Amitava Das