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The Crucial Role of Samplers in Online Direct Preference Optimization
Ruizhe Shi · Runlong Zhou · Simon Du
Abstract:
In this paper, we provide a rigorous analysis of DPO's convergence rates with different sampling strategies under the exact gradient setting, revealing a separation: uniform sampling achieves linear convergence, while our proposed online sampler achieves quadratic convergence.We further adapt the sampler to practical settings by incorporating posterior distributions and logit mixing, demonstrating significant improvements over previous approaches.Our results not only offer insights into the theoretical standing of DPO but also pave the way for potential algorithm designs in the future.
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