Summary of Dcr-consistency: Divide-conquer-reasoning For Consistency Evaluation and Improvement Of Large Language Models, by Wendi Cui et al.
DCR-Consistency: Divide-Conquer-Reasoning for Consistency Evaluation and Improvement of Large Language Models
by Wendi Cui, Jiaxin Zhang, Zhuohang Li, Lopez Damien, Kamalika Das, Bradley Malin, Sricharan Kumar
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Jan 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 DCR framework evaluates the quality and variability of text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) using a divide-conquer-reasoning approach. This novel methodology addresses the limitations of traditional evaluation methods, such as ROUGE and BERTScore, which focus on token similarity rather than holistic semantic equivalence. The DCR framework consists of three components: a divide-and-conquer evaluator (DCE) that breaks down paragraph-to-paragraph comparisons into individual sentence-to-paragraph evaluations; an automatic metric converter (AMC) that translates the output from DCE into an interpretable numeric score; and a reason-assisted improver (RAI) that generates new responses aimed at reducing inconsistencies. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, outperforming state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin on multiple benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to evaluate how well Large Language Models can generate text that is consistent and makes sense. Currently, we don’t have a good way to measure this, which is a problem when using these models in important areas like healthcare or finance. The authors introduce a framework called DCR that works by comparing individual sentences to paragraphs, rather than just looking at the overall paragraph. This helps us understand why some generated text might not be consistent. They also show how their approach can reduce inconsistencies by over 90%. Overall, this is an important step forward in making sure these models are reliable and safe. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Rouge * Token
