PORT: Preference Optimization on Reasoning Traces
Preference optimization methods have been successfully applied to improve not only the alignment of large language models (LLMs) with human values, but also specific natural language tasks such as summarization and stylistic continuations. This paper proposes using preference optimization methods on Chain-of-Thought steps in order to improve the reasoning performances of language models. While the chosen answers are obtained from datasets that include reasoning traces, we propose two complementary schemes for generating rejected answers: digit corruption, and weak LLM prompting. Our approach leads to increased accuracy on the GSM8K, AQuA-RAT, and ARC benchmarks for Falcon2-11B and Mistral-7B. For example, the approach can lead to up to a relative 8.47% increase in accuracy on the GSM8K benchmark without any extra annotations. This work suggests that spending resources on creating more datasets of reasoning traces would further boost LLM performances on informal reasoning tasks.
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