Summary of Guiding Llms the Right Way: Fast, Non-invasive Constrained Generation, by Luca Beurer-kellner et al.
Guiding LLMs The Right Way: Fast, Non-Invasive Constrained Generation
by Luca Beurer-Kellner, Marc Fischer, Martin Vechev
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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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 constrained decoding method for large language models (LLMs) aims to generate text in an expected format while considering formal language constraints. The work reveals that many current methods incur performance overhead and impair task accuracy unless the underlying LLM sub-word vocabularies align correctly with external constraints. To address this, the authors introduce DOMINO, a novel decoding algorithm that enforces constraints in a fully subword-aligned fashion, leveraging pre-computation and speculative decoding to achieve virtually no overhead and even speedup in some cases, outperforming existing approaches by a wide margin. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Constrained text generation is important for large language models (LLMs) to produce expected output. Currently, many methods can’t do this correctly and slow down the process. In this research, scientists developed an algorithm called DOMINO that can enforce constraints without slowing down the model’s performance. This means LLMs can now generate text in a specific format while still being efficient. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Text generation
