Summary of Correcting Negative Bias in Large Language Models Through Negative Attention Score Alignment, by Sangwon Yu et al.
Correcting Negative Bias in Large Language Models through Negative Attention Score Alignment
by Sangwon Yu, Jongyoon Song, Bongkyu Hwang, Hoyoung Kang, Sooah Cho, Junhwa Choi, Seongho Joe, Taehee Lee, Youngjune L. Gwon, Sungroh Yoon
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Jul 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 paper explores the issue of negative bias in language models when performing binary decision tasks, such as yes-no questions or answer verification. The researchers observe that these models tend to exhibit a negative bias in complex reasoning tasks, which can have significant real-world implications. To address this issue, they propose the Negative Attention Score (NAS) and the Negative Attention Score Alignment (NASA) method. NAS is used to quantify and formulate negative bias, while NASA is a fine-tuning technique that reduces the gap between precision and recall caused by negative bias. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach through experiments on various reasoning tasks and large model search spaces. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about how language models can be biased when making decisions. Imagine you’re trying to decide if a sentence is true or false, but the model keeps saying it’s false even when it’s actually true! The researchers found that these models tend to make mistakes in this way. They came up with two new ideas: one helps us understand why this bias happens, and the other helps us fix it. By using these ideas, they showed that we can make language models better at making decisions without sacrificing their ability to learn from experience. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Attention » Fine tuning » Precision » Recall
