Summary of Mechanistic Understanding and Mitigation Of Language Model Non-factual Hallucinations, by Lei Yu et al.
Mechanistic Understanding and Mitigation of Language Model Non-Factual Hallucinations
by Lei Yu, Meng Cao, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Yue Dong
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates the mechanisms behind language models’ (LMs) tendency to generate non-factual information. To achieve this, the authors create diagnostic datasets and adapt interpretability methods to analyze LMs’ internal representations. The study reveals two primary causes of hallucinations: insufficient subject attribute knowledge in lower layers and failure to select correct object attributes in attention heads. These findings are reflected in external manifestations and inform a novel method for mitigating hallucinations through targeted restoration of the LM’s fact recall pipeline, outperforming baselines. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at why language models sometimes make up things that aren’t true. The researchers created special datasets to help them understand what’s going on inside the model. They found two main reasons why this happens: the model doesn’t know enough about the topic, and it can’t pick out the right details. This information helps us develop a new way to stop the model from making things up, which works better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Recall
