Summary of Aligning with Logic: Measuring, Evaluating and Improving Logical Preference Consistency in Large Language Models, by Yinhong Liu et al.
Aligning with Logic: Measuring, Evaluating and Improving Logical Preference Consistency in Large Language Models
by Yinhong Liu, Zhijiang Guo, Tianya Liang, Ehsan Shareghi, Ivan Vulić, Nigel Collier
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) by examining their logical preference consistency. The authors propose a universal evaluation framework based on three fundamental properties: transitivity, commutativity, and negation invariance. They demonstrate that these properties serve as strong indicators of judgment robustness across various LLMs. Additionally, they introduce the REPAIR technique to enhance logical consistency while maintaining alignment with human preferences. The authors show that improving consistency leads to better performance in LLM-driven logic-based algorithms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making language models more reliable and trustworthy by making their decisions consistent and logical. Right now, these models can be inconsistent and give different answers to the same question. The researchers want to fix this problem by creating a special way to test how well the models are doing. They came up with three rules that the models should follow: if one model says something is true, another similar model should agree; if you switch the order of two statements, it shouldn’t change the answer; and if you negate (opposite) one statement, the other statement should still be the same. They tested these rules on many language models and found that they work well. Then, they came up with a new technique called REPAIR to make the models even better at being consistent. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment
