Summary of Fairer Preferences Elicit Improved Human-aligned Large Language Model Judgments, by Han Zhou et al.
Fairer Preferences Elicit Improved Human-Aligned Large Language Model Judgments
by Han Zhou, Xingchen Wan, Yinhong Liu, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to improving the quality of language generation evaluation using large language models (LLMs). Specifically, it presents a framework called Zero-shot Evaluation-oriented Prompt Optimization (ZEPO) that aims to produce fairer preference decisions from LLMs, aligning them with human judgments. The authors first reveal that LLMs exhibit preference biases and sensitivity to prompt designs, leading to skewed and brittle predictions. They then propose a zero-shot learning objective based on preference decision fairness, which demonstrates substantial performance improvements over state-of-the-art LLM evaluators on representative meta-evaluation benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand how big language models can be used to test the quality of generated text. These models are good at comparing two pieces of text and saying which one is better. However, they sometimes make unfair choices based on small differences in the way the text was written. The authors want to fix this by making the models choose what humans would pick as the best option. They created a new system called ZEPO that can do this without needing lots of training data. It worked really well and could help us use these language models to test generated text more fairly. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization » Prompt » Zero shot
