Improving Open Language Models by Learning from Organic Interactions
Abstract
We present BlenderBot 3x, an update on the conversational model BlenderBot 3, which is now trained using organic conversation and feedback data from participating users of the system in order to improve both its skills and safety. We are publicly releasing the participating de-identified interaction data for use by the research community, in order to spur further progress. Training models with organic data is challenging because interactions with people "in the wild" include both high quality conversations and feedback, as well as adversarial and toxic behavior. We study techniques that enable learning from helpful teachers while avoiding learning from people who are trying to trick the model into unhelpful or toxic responses. BlenderBot 3x is both preferred in conversation to BlenderBot 3, and is shown to produce safer responses in challenging situations. While our current models are still far from perfect, we believe further improvement can be achieved by continued use of the techniques explored in this work.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.04707,
title = {Improving Open Language Models by Learning from Organic Interactions},
author = {Jing Xu and Da Ju and Joshua Lane and Mojtaba Komeili and Eric Michael Smith and Megan Ung and Morteza Behrooz and William Ngan and Rashel Moritz and Sainbayar Sukhbaatar and Y-Lan Boureau and Jason Weston and Kurt Shuster},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.04707},
year = {2023}
}