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Weak-to-Strong generalization (W2SG) is a new trend to elicit the full capabilities of a strong model with supervision from a weak model. While existing W2SG studies focus on simple tasks like binary classification, we extend this paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ruimeng Ye , Zihan Wang , Yang Xiao , Zinan Ling , Manling Li , Bo Hui

Weak-to-strong (W2S) generalization, in which a strong model is fine-tuned on outputs of a weaker, task-specialized model, has been proposed as an approach to aligning superhuman AI systems. Existing theoretical analyses either fix the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Ryoya Awano , Taiji Suzuki

Weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG) refers to the phenomenon where a strong student model, trained on a dataset labeled by a weak teacher, ultimately outperforms the teacher on the target task. Recent studies attribute this performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Gengze Xu , Wei Yao , Ziqiao Wang , Yong Liu

Weak-to-Strong Generalization (W2SG), where a weak model supervises a stronger one, serves as an important analogy for understanding how humans might guide superhuman intelligence in the future. Promising empirical results revealed that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yihao Xue , Jiping Li , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

The paradigm of Weak-to-Strong Generalization (W2SG) suggests that a pre-trained strong model can surpass its weak supervisor, yet the decisive role of pre-training remains theoretically and empirically under-explored. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Wei Yao , Wang Zhaoyang , Gengze Xu , Chen Qian , Dongrui Liu , Ziqiao Wang , Yong Liu , Yunbei Xu

As large language models advance toward superhuman performance, ensuring their alignment with human values and abilities grows increasingly complex. Weak-to-strong generalization offers a promising approach by leveraging predictions from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wei Yao , Wenkai Yang , Ziqiao Wang , Yankai Lin , Yong Liu

Weak-to-strong generalization, where weakly supervised strong models outperform their weaker teachers, offers a promising approach to aligning superhuman models with human values. To deepen the understanding of this approach, we provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wei Yao , Wenkai Yang , Gengze Xu , Ziqiao Wang , Yankai Lin , Yong Liu

The goal of diffusion generative models is to align the learned distribution with the real data distribution through gradient score matching. However, inherent limitations in training data quality, modeling strategies, and architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Lichen Bai , Masashi Sugiyama , Zeke Xie

Recent advancements in large language models have sparked interest in their extraordinary and near-superhuman capabilities, leading researchers to explore methods for evaluating and optimizing these abilities, which is called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jianyuan Guo , Hanting Chen , Chengcheng Wang , Kai Han , Chang Xu , Yunhe Wang

The growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) present a key challenge of maintaining effective human oversight. Weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG) offers a promising framework for supervising increasingly capable LLMs using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shujin Wu , Cheng Qian , Yi R. Fung , Paul Pu Liang , Heng Ji

The paradigm of weak-to-strong generalization constitutes the training of a strong AI model on data labeled by a weak AI model, with the goal that the strong model nevertheless outperforms its weak supervisor on the target task of interest.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Abhijeet Mulgund , Chirag Pabbaraju

Weak-to-strong (W2S) generalization is a type of finetuning (FT) where a strong (large) student model is trained on pseudo-labels generated by a weak teacher. Surprisingly, W2S FT often outperforms the weak teacher. We seek to understand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yijun Dong , Yicheng Li , Yunai Li , Jason D. Lee , Qi Lei

Future superhuman models will surpass the ability of humans and humans will only be able to \textit{weakly} supervise superhuman models. To alleviate the issue of lacking high-quality data for model alignment, some works on weak-to-strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hao Lang , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

The weak-to-strong generalization phenomenon is the driver for important machine learning applications including highly data-efficient learning and, most recently, performing superalignment. While decades of research have resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Changho Shin , John Cooper , Frederic Sala

With Large Language Models (LLMs) rapidly approaching and potentially surpassing human-level performance, it has become imperative to develop approaches capable of effectively supervising and enhancing these powerful models using smaller,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Aakriti Agrawal , Mucong Ding , Zora Che , Chenghao Deng , Anirudh Satheesh , Bang An , Bayan Bruss , John Langford , Furong Huang

With Large Language Models (LLMs) rapidly approaching and potentially surpassing human-level performance, it has become imperative to develop approaches capable of effectively supervising and enhancing these powerful models using smaller,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aakriti Agrawal , Mucong Ding , Zora Che , Chenghao Deng , Anirudh Satheesh , Bang An , Bayan Bruss , John Langford , Furong Huang

This paper presents a follow-up study to OpenAI's recent superalignment work on Weak-to-Strong Generalization (W2SG). Superalignment focuses on ensuring that high-level AI systems remain consistent with human values and intentions when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jitao Sang , Yuhang Wang , Jing Zhang , Yanxu Zhu , Chao Kong , Junhong Ye , Shuyu Wei , Jinlin Xiao

Weak-to-strong generalization is a phenomenon in post-training whereby a strong student model, when finetuned solely with feedback from a weaker teacher, can not only surpass the teacher, but can improve upon its own capabilities. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Scott Geng , Dutch Hansen , Jerry Li

Aligning powerful AI models on tasks that surpass human evaluation capabilities is the central problem of \textbf{superalignment}. To address this problem, weak-to-strong generalization aims to elicit the capabilities of strong models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Junhao Shi , Qinyuan Cheng , Zhaoye Fei , Yining Zheng , Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu

Weak-to-strong generalization refers to the phenomenon where a stronger model trained under supervision from a weaker one can outperform its teacher. While prior studies aim to explain this effect, most theoretical insights are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Junsoo Oh , Jerry Song , Chulhee Yun
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