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Geoffrey Cideron

6 accepted papers

2025

BOND: Aligning LLMs with Best-of-N Distillation

ICLR 2025poster

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a key driver of quality and safety in state-of-the-art large language models. Yet, a surprisingly simple and strong inference-time strategy is Best-of-N sampling that selects the best generation among N candidates. In this paper, we propose Best-o…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2025

Diversity-Rewarded CFG Distillation

ICLR 2025poster

Generative models are transforming creative domains such as music generation, with inference-time strategies like Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) playing a crucial role. However, CFG doubles inference cost while limiting originality and diversity across generated contents. In this paper, we introduce…

2024

Conditional Language Policy: A General Framework For Steerable Multi-Objective Finetuning

EMNLP 2024finding

Reward-based finetuning is crucial for aligning language policies with intended behaviors (*e.g.*, creativity and safety). A key challenge is to develop steerable language models that trade-off multiple (conflicting) objectives in a flexible and efficient manner. This paper presents Conditional Lang…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2024

MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences

ICML 2024poster

We propose MusicRL, the first music generation system finetuned from human feedback. Appreciation of text-to-music models is particularly subjective since the concept of musicality as well as the specific intention behind a caption are user-dependent (e.g. a caption such as “upbeat workout music” ca…

2024

WARM: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Reward Models

ICML 2024poster

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences through reinforcement learning (RLHF) can lead to reward hacking, where LLMs exploit failures in the reward model (RM) to achieve seemingly high rewards without meeting the underlying objectives. We identify two primary challenges when des…

Cited by 76SourcePDFScholar
2023

Factually Consistent Summarization via Reinforcement Learning with Textual Entailment Feedback

ACL 2023long

Despite the seeming success of contemporary grounded text generation systems, they often tend to generate factually inconsistent text with respect to their input. This phenomenon is emphasized in tasks like summarization, in which the generated summaries should be corroborated by their source articl…

Cited by 82SourcePDFScholar