Summary of Evaluating Large Language Models Using Contrast Sets: An Experimental Approach, by Manish Sanwal
Evaluating Large Language Models Using Contrast Sets: An Experimental Approach
by Manish Sanwal
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 introduces an innovative technique for generating a contrast set for the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset to evaluate a model’s capacity to understand language entailments. The current Cross-Entropy Loss metric is insufficient, as it only measures error and does not account for genuine language comprehension. The authors use the ELECTRA-small model, achieving an accuracy of 89.9% on the conventional SNLI dataset but a reduced accuracy of 72.5% on the contrast set, indicating a significant decline. This highlights the importance of incorporating diverse linguistic expressions into datasets for NLI tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about creating a special test to help AI language models understand what things mean. Right now, these models are really good at recognizing patterns in words but not so good at actually understanding what those words mean. The researchers created a new way of testing these models by changing some of the words in sentences to keep their original meaning. They used a specific model and found that it was much worse at answering questions on this special test than it was on regular tests. This shows how important it is to include many different types of language in our AI training data, so these models can get better at understanding what things mean. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Cross entropy * Inference
