Summary of Balancing Diversity and Risk in Llm Sampling: How to Select Your Method and Parameter For Open-ended Text Generation, by Yuxuan Zhou et al.
Balancing Diversity and Risk in LLM Sampling: How to Select Your Method and Parameter for Open-Ended Text Generation
by Yuxuan Zhou, Margret Keuper, Mario Fritz
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Aug 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 paper introduces a systematic approach to estimating the capacity of truncation sampling methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) in open-ended text generation tasks. By considering the trade-off between diversity and risk at each decoding step, the method aims to improve the balance between quality and variety in generated texts. The authors collect a prefix tree that preserves the context of a full sentence, enabling the estimation of the truncation sampling method’s capacity. The paper provides a comprehensive comparison of existing methods and serves as a practical guide for parameter selection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study helps computers better understand how to generate text by introducing a new way to decide what words come next in a sentence. Right now, computers use techniques like “temperature tuning” and “tail truncation” to try to balance quality with variety in their generated texts. But these methods rely on special settings that are only good for certain types of text. The authors of this paper propose a new approach that takes into account the context of an entire sentence, rather than just a single word or phrase. This could lead to better text generation results across many different applications. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Temperature » Text generation
