Summary of Banishing Llm Hallucinations Requires Rethinking Generalization, by Johnny Li et al.
Banishing LLM Hallucinations Requires Rethinking Generalization
by Johnny Li, Saksham Consul, Eda Zhou, James Wong, Naila Farooqui, Yuxin Ye, Nithyashree Manohar, Zhuxiaona Wei, Tian Wu, Ben Echols, Sharon Zhou, Gregory Diamos
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jun 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 This research paper investigates the phenomenon of hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), which are capable of producing human-like text but often fabricate information. The study challenges conventional wisdom by showing that traditional approaches to grounding LLMs in external knowledge sources do not effectively mitigate hallucinations. Instead, the authors demonstrate that simple neural networks trained to predict the next token can easily memorize large datasets of random numbers and generate hallucinated text when the training loss is above a threshold. To address this issue, the researchers design a first-generation model called Lamini-1 that stores facts in a massive mixture of millions of memory experts retrieved dynamically. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Language Models (LLMs) are super smart computers that can write like humans, but sometimes they make things up! Scientists have tried different ways to help them tell fact from fiction, but it doesn’t seem to work. The new study shows that even simple computer programs can learn to generate random numbers and then make up stories based on those numbers. This is a big problem because we want AI to be helpful, not misleading! To fix this issue, the researchers have created a new type of AI model called Lamini-1 that stores facts in millions of tiny memory cells, which it uses to tell fact from fiction. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Grounding » Token
