Summary of Approximately Aligned Decoding, by Daniel Melcer et al.
Approximately Aligned Decoding
by Daniel Melcer, Sujan Gonugondla, Pramuditha Perera, Haifeng Qian, Wen-Hao Chiang, Yanjun Wang, Nihal Jain, Pranav Garg, Xiaofei Ma, Anoop Deoras
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Oct 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 The proposed method for rejecting undesired outputs from Large Language Models (LLMs) balances computational efficiency with the distortion of the output distribution. This allows for the generation of long sequences of text with challenging constraints, reducing the amplification of low-probability outputs compared to existing methods. The approach achieves comparable task-specific performance to methods that don’t distort the output distribution, while being more computationally efficient. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to control what Large Language Models (LLMs) say is introduced. Normally, these models produce unwanted text, which requires a lot of computer power or changes how likely certain words are to appear. The new method finds a balance between these two things, allowing it to generate long texts with tricky requirements while minimizing the occurrence of unlikely words. This approach works as well as other methods that don’t change the likelihood of words, but uses less computer power. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Likelihood » Probability
