Summary of Glitchprober: Advancing Effective Detection and Mitigation Of Glitch Tokens in Large Language Models, by Zhibo Zhang et al.
GlitchProber: Advancing Effective Detection and Mitigation of Glitch Tokens in Large Language Models
by Zhibo Zhang, Wuxia Bai, Yuxi Li, Mark Huasong Meng, Kailong Wang, Ling Shi, Li Li, Jun Wang, Haoyu Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Aug 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 research paper investigates the limitations of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing. Despite their impressive performance, concerns about their trustworthiness and interpretability have been raised due to their black-box nature. The study identifies a new class of abnormal tokens, dubbed “glitch tokens”, which can be embedded into input text and cause LLMs to generate incorrect or irrelevant results. This discovery has significant implications for the reliability and practicality of LLLs in various applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are super smart at understanding human language! But there’s a problem – they’re hard to understand themselves. Researchers found some weird “glitch tokens” that can mess with how these models work. If you put one of these tokens into the model, it might start giving bad answers or even say something mean. This is important because we use these models for lots of things like chatbots and language translation. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Natural language processing » Translation
