Summary of Honestllm: Toward An Honest and Helpful Large Language Model, by Chujie Gao et al.
HonestLLM: Toward an Honest and Helpful Large Language Model
by Chujie Gao, Siyuan Wu, Yue Huang, Dongping Chen, Qihui Zhang, Zhengyan Fu, Yao Wan, Lichao Sun, Xiangliang Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Jun 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 paper explores methods to enhance the honesty and helpfulness of Large Language Models (LLMs), which have been successful in various industries but need to be deployed safely and effectively. The authors establish principles to ensure the honesty of LLMs and introduce a novel dataset, HoneSet, to assess their capacity for maintaining honesty. Two approaches are proposed: a training-free enhancement using curiosity-driven prompting and a fine-tuning-based improvement inspired by curriculum learning. Experiments on nine prominent LLMs show significant improvements in alignment with honesty across all models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to make Large Language Models (LLMs) be more honest and helpful when they’re used for real things. Right now, these models are really good at making up responses, but we need them to be honest too. The researchers come up with some ways to make the models do this better. They create a special dataset to test how well the models can stay honest. Then they try out two different methods: one that doesn’t need any extra training and another that refines the model’s understanding of what’s honest and what’s not. It looks like these methods really work, with some models getting 65% better at being honest and others improving by 124%! This could help us use LLMs for real-world things without worrying about them lying to us. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Curriculum learning » Fine tuning » Prompting
