DPO step
DPO loss
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The chosen response should gain probability against the reference more than the rejected one does; the logistic loss of that margin, scaled by .
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Eq. 7 of the DPO paper; β = 0.1 is the Llama 3 paper’s (p. 16).
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Direct evidence
§4, eq. 7: L_DPO(π_θ; π_ref) = −E[log σ(β log π_θ(y_w|x)/π_ref(y_w|x) − β log π_θ(y_l|x)/π_ref(y_l|x))], over preference triples (x, y_w, y_l).
dpo · arXiv 2305.18290 / DPO-2305.18290v3.pdf
Pinned revision v3 ↗ · p. 4
Direct evidence
§4.1.4, Direct Preference Optimization: DPO on the SFT models with learning rate 10⁻⁵ and β = 0.1; special formatting tokens, including header and termination tokens, are masked out of the loss in chosen and rejected responses; an NLL term with scaling coefficient 0.2 is added on the chosen sequences.
meta · arXiv 2407.21783 / Llama3-Herd-2407.21783v3.pdf
Pinned revision v3 ↗ · p. 16