README.md

Mechanistically Understanding DPO: Toxicity

This repository provides the models, data, and experiments used in A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity.

Models, Data

You can download the models and datasets used in our paper here.

Save the checkpoints under ./checkpoints and unzip the data files under ./data.

Experiments

All of our experiments can be found under ./toxicity. To run interventions, see ./toxicity/eval_interventions/run_evaluations.py.

To re-create any of our figures, see ./toxicity/eval_interventions/figures.

Training DPO

To train your own dpo model:

cd toxicity/train_dpo
python train.py exp_name="[name of your experiment]"

How to Cite

If you find our work relevant, please cite as following:

@article{lee2024mechanistic,
  title={A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity},
  author={Lee, Andrew and Bai, Xiaoyan and Pres, Itamar and Wattenberg, Martin and Kummerfeld, Jonathan K and Mihalcea, Rada},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01967},
  year={2024}
}