Summary of Harmonic Llms Are Trustworthy, by Nicholas S. Kersting et al.
Harmonic LLMs are Trustworthy
by Nicholas S. Kersting, Mohammad Rahman, Suchismitha Vedala, Yang Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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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 a novel method to evaluate the robustness of any black-box language model (LLM) in real-time. The approach measures the local deviation from harmonicity, denoted as γ, and is completely model-agnostic and unsupervised. The authors apply this method to 10 popular LLMs across three objective domains: WebQA, ProgrammingQA, and TruthfulQA. The results show that models with low values of γ are trustworthy, while high values indicate hallucination. This enables efficient adversarial prompt generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a new way to test how well language models work. It checks if the model is being honest or making things up by looking at how much it deviates from a special kind of harmony. They tested this on 10 different language models and found that some smaller, open-source models are actually better than bigger, commercial ones. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hallucination » Language model » Prompt » Unsupervised
