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Sarah Perrin

8 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…

2025

Mastering Board Games by External and Internal Planning with Language Models

ICML 2025spotlight

Advancing planning and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is one of the key prerequisites towards unlocking their potential for performing reliably in complex and impactful domains. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate this across board games (Chess, Fischer Random / Chess960, Co…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

On Teacher Hacking in Language Model Distillation

ICML 2025poster

Post-training of language models (LMs) increasingly relies on the following two stages: (i) knowledge distillation, where the LM is trained to imitate a larger teacher LM, and (ii) reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), where the LM is aligned by optimizing a reward model. In the second…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2022

Generalization in Mean Field Games by Learning Master Policies

AAAI 2022technical

Mean Field Games (MFGs) can potentially scale multi-agent systems to extremely large populations of agents. Yet, most of the literature assumes a single initial distribution for the agents, which limits the practical applications of MFGs. Machine Learning has the potential to solve a wider diversity…

Cited by 45SourcePDFScholar
2022

Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Mean Field Games

ICML 2022spotlight

Mean Field Games (MFGs) have been introduced to efficiently approximate games with very large populations of strategic agents. Recently, the question of learning equilibria in MFGs has gained momentum, particularly using model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods. One limiting factor to further…

2021

Mean Field Games Flock! The Reinforcement Learning Way

IJCAI 2021poster

We present a method enabling a large number of agents to learn how to flock. This problem has drawn a lot of interest but requires many structural assumptions and is tractable only in small dimensions. We phrase this problem as a Mean Field Game (MFG), where each individual chooses its own accelera…

2020

Fictitious Play for Mean Field Games: Continuous Time Analysis and Applications

NeurIPS 2020poster

In this paper, we deepen the analysis of continuous time Fictitious Play learning algorithm to the consideration of various finite state Mean Field Game settings (finite horizon, $\gamma$-discounted), allowing in particular for the introduction of an additional common noise. We first present a th…