Token-aware DPO preserves useful behavior in rejected model responses

GAW-PO weakens penalties for rejected tokens whose gradient updates align with learning the preferred response.

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Andreea Dutulescu · Stefan Ruseti · Mihai Masala · Traian Rebedea · Mihai Dascalu

National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest · NVIDIA

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Dutulescu et al.

The authors modified DPO, which trains on prompt, preferred-response and rejected-response triples.

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From NVIDIA and National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest

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GAW-PO reweights rejected tokens in DPO by gradient alignment with preferred updates, improving performance across 11 benchmarks.

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