Welcome to the GitHub repository for the research project conducted at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on "Fine-Tuning Models: The Influence of Noisy Human Feedback in Fine-tuning from Preferences."

This study investigates the impact of noise introduction during fine-tuning on model performance. Leveraging insights from Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF), we implement a loss function enabling end-to-end fine-tuning. We systematically introduce controlled noise levels into datasets during fine-tuning and observe their effects on model performance. Our methodology involves initial training, fine-tuning with noise, and incrementally increasing noise levels for analysis. Findings reveal unexpected benefits from noise introduction, but extended fine-tuning results in performance decline, signalling sub-optimal loss function implementation. Future research may explore RLHF, reinforcement learning aspects, and regularization techniques to refine fine-tuning and enhance model performance.

As the directory structure shows, we included a environment.yml file with the packages and dependencies that should be installed. You can create a virtual environment with your favourite manager, i.e. conda, and install the requirements with:

conda env create -f environment.yml

This repository is divided in two folder: multiclass and binary. The multiclass folder has everything to work with $k\geq 1$ and binary has everything for the selective pair selection.

The main function which runs the training and fine-tuning for one seed. You can run the file by calling the following in the multiclass folder:

python main.py [arguments]

It has the following arguments:

--use-cuda: Flag to enable GPU acceleration if available.
--path: Path to the data directory.
--model_name: Name of the model used to embed sentences.
--pc: Flag to use pre-calculated embeddings.
--ratio: Specifies the amount of noise added to the ratings.
--k: Determines the number of comparisons to use during fine-tuning.
--epochs-t: Number of epochs for training.
--epochs-f: Number of epochs for fine-tuning.

To run the experiment for multiple seeds, multiple noise levels and create a plot, you can run the following file in the folder multiclass:

python config.py [arguments]

With the following arguments:

--use-cuda: Flag to enable GPU acceleration if available.
--path: Path to the data directory.
--model_name: Name of the model used to embed sentences.
--pc: Flag to use pre-calculated embeddings.
--ratio: Specifies the amount of noise added to the ratings.
--k: Determines the number of comparisons to use during fine-tuning.
--epochs-t: Number of epochs for training.
--epochs-f: Number of epochs for fine-tuning.

The main function which runs the training and fine-tuning for one seed. You can run the file by calling the following in the binary folder:

python main.py [arguments]

It has the following arguments:

--use-cuda: Flag to enable GPU acceleration if available.
--path: Path to the data directory.
--model_name: Name of the model used to embed sentences.
--pc: Flag to use pre-calculated embeddings.
--ratio: Specifies the amount of noise added to the ratings.
--epochs-t: Number of epochs for training.
--epochs-f: Number of epochs for fine-tuning.

To run the experiment for multiple seeds, multiple noise levels and create a plot, you can run the following file in the folder binary:

python config.py [arguments]

With the following arguments:

--use-cuda: Flag to enable GPU acceleration if available.
--path: Path to the data directory.
--model_name: Name of the model used to embed sentences.
--pc: Flag to use pre-calculated embeddings.
--ratio: Specifies the amount of noise added to the ratings.
--epochs-t: Number of epochs for training.
--epochs-f: Number of epochs for fine-tuning.

This research project is done by Noa Nonkes, from the University of Amsterdam.