Curry-DPO: Enhancing Alignment using Curriculum Learning & Ranked
  Preferences
Pulkit Pattnaik Rishabh Maheshwary Kelechi Ogueji Vikas Yadav Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is an effective technique that leverages
pairwise preference data (usually one chosen and rejected response pair per
user prompt) to align LLMs to human preferences. In practice, multiple
responses can exist for a given prompt with varying quality relative to each
other. With availability of such quality ratings for multiple responses, we
propose utilizing these responses to create multiple preference pairs for a
given prompt. Our work focuses on systematically using the constructed multiple
preference pair in DPO training via curriculum learning methodology. In
particular, we order these multiple pairs of preference data from easy to hard
(emulating curriculum training) according to various criteria. We show detailed
comparisons of our proposed approach to the standard single-pair DPO setting.
Our method, which we call Curry-DPO consistently shows increased performance
gains on MTbench, Vicuna, WizardLM, and the UltraFeedback test set,
highlighting its effectiveness. More specifically, Curry-DPO achieves a score
of 7.43 on MT-bench with Zephy-7B model outperforming majority of existing LLMs
with similar parameter size. Curry-DPO also achieves the highest adjusted win
rates on Vicuna, WizardLM, and UltraFeedback test datasets (90.7%, 87.1%, and
87.9% respectively) in our experiments, with notable gains of upto 7.5% when
compared to standard DPO technique.