The Significance of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are the latest, most incredible developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). With their skills of answering questions, completing codes, and summarizing textual paragraphs just like humans, these models have harnessed the potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG). However, while these models have shown impressive capabilities, they also face challenges in producing factually correct and fluent content. This is known as “hallucinations.”
Challenges of LLMs
Hallucinations are when the model produces factually false information, hampering its practical use in real-world applications. Past studies on hallucinations in Natural Language Generation have focused on situations with a reference text, examining how closely the generated text adheres to these references. However, issues have been brought up regarding hallucinations that result from the model choosing facts and general knowledge over a particular source text.
Introducing a New Solution
To overcome this, a team of researchers has introduced a study on automatic fine-grain hallucination detection. The team has proposed a comprehensive taxonomy of six forms of hallucinations and developed automated systems for detecting these errors. They suggested a more detailed method of hallucination identification by introducing a new task, benchmark, and model.
Results
The team’s study observed a considerable percentage of hallucinations in outputs from two Language Models (LM), ChatGPT and Llama2-Chat 70B. The study also noted that a large proportion of these hallucinations belonged to categories that had not been properly examined.
Improving LM-generated Text
The team also trained FAVA, a retrieval-augmented LM, as a potential solution, which demonstrated better performance in identifying fine-grained hallucinations compared to ChatGPT. FAVA’s proposed edits improved the factuality of LM-generated text and simultaneously detected hallucinations, leading to 5–10% improvements in factuality scores.
Conclusion and Future Developments
Overall, the study has proposed a unique task of automatic fine-grained hallucination identification to address the common problem of hallucinations in text generated by Language Models. The thorough taxonomy and benchmark have provided insight into the degree of hallucinations in popular LMs, while FAVA has shown promising results in detecting and correcting these errors. This highlights the necessity for further developments in this area.
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