Summary of The Multilingual Alignment Prism: Aligning Global and Local Preferences to Reduce Harm, by Aakanksha et al.
The Multilingual Alignment Prism: Aligning Global and Local Preferences to Reduce Harm
by Aakanksha, Arash Ahmadian, Beyza Ermis, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Julia Kreutzer, Marzieh Fadaee, Sara Hooker
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The abstract discusses the challenges of ensuring safety alignment in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly when dealing with diverse linguistic and cultural settings. The focus is on exploring different alignment approaches that balance the dual objectives of addressing and optimizing for a non-homogeneous set of languages and cultural preferences while minimizing global and local harms. To achieve this, the authors collect human-annotated prompts in various languages, distinguishing between global and local harm, which serve as a laboratory for understanding the reliability of alignment techniques. The study establishes state-of-the-art alignment techniques across 6 languages with minimal degradation in general performance, providing important insights into cross-lingual transfer and novel optimization approaches to safeguard AI systems designed to serve global populations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary AI researchers are working on making sure artificial intelligence (AI) systems are safe and fair. One problem is that most safety tests are based on English-speaking countries, but many people around the world don’t speak English. The authors of this paper want to see if different approaches can help make AI systems safer and more respectful of other cultures. They collected special prompts in six different languages that help them understand how well different techniques work. This is important because it helps us prepare for a future where AI systems are used by people all around the world. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Optimization
