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Self-Generative Adversarial Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

Machine Learning 2026-02-03 v1

Abstract

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for alignment typically relies on supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning from human feedback, both limited by the cost and scarcity of high-quality annotations. Recent self-play and synthetic data approaches reduce this dependence but often rely on heuristic assumptions or ungrounded self-evaluation, which can cause bias accumulation and performance drift. In this paper, we propose Self-Generative Adversarial LLM (SGALM), a unified fine-tuning framework that formulates alignment as a generative adversarial game within a single LLM. SGALM jointly evolves generation and discrimination capabilities without external reward models. Theoretical and empirical results demonstrate that SGALM achieves state-of-the-art performance, serves as an effective alignment algorithm and a robust synthetic data engine.

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@article{arxiv.2602.01137,
  title  = {Self-Generative Adversarial Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models},
  author = {Shiguang Wu and Yaqing Wang and Quanming Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01137},
  year   = {2026}
}
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