Alignment at Pre-training! Towards Native Alignment for Arabic LLMs
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen); National University of Singapore · Universita' degli studi di Padova
PDF 由论文原始站点提供，PaperCompass 不保存论文文件。
摘要
The alignment of large language models (LLMs) is critical for developing effective and safe language models. Traditional approaches focus on aligning models during the instruction tuning or reinforcement learning stages, referred to in this paper as `\textit{post alignment}'. We argue that alignment during the pre-training phase, which we term 'native alignment', warrants investigation. Native alignment aims to prevent unaligned content from the beginning, rather than relying on post-hoc processing. This approach leverages extensively aligned pre-training data to enhance the effectiveness and usability of pre-trained models. Our study specifically explores the application of native alignment in the context of Arabic LLMs. We conduct comprehensive experiments and ablation studies to evaluate the impact of native alignment on model performance and alignment stability. Additionally, we release open-source Arabic LLMs that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks, providing significant benefits to the Arabic LLM community.