Summary of Integrate the Essence and Eliminate the Dross: Fine-grained Self-consistency For Free-form Language Generation, by Xinglin Wang et al.
Integrate the Essence and Eliminate the Dross: Fine-Grained Self-Consistency for Free-Form Language Generation
by Xinglin Wang, Yiwei Li, Shaoxiong Feng, Peiwen Yuan, Boyuan Pan, Heda Wang, Yao Hu, Kan Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 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 This paper explores novel approaches to leveraging large language models (LLMs) for reasoning tasks and free-form generation. Current self-consistency methods, such as UCS and USC, struggle with aggregating answers due to limitations in utilizing nuanced consensus knowledge within candidate samples. To address this, the authors propose Fine-Grained Self-Consistency (FSC), which extracts and integrates segment-level commonalities from candidate samples to enhance LLM performance on open-ended and reasoning tasks. FSC is demonstrated through experiments on summarization, code generation, and mathematical reasoning using GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4, showcasing significant improvements over baseline methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes AI better by finding new ways to use big language models for hard thinking problems and creating text. Right now, the best way to get answers from these models is self-consistency, but it’s not perfect because it can’t fully understand what multiple people are saying. To fix this, scientists came up with a new idea called Fine-Grained Self-Consistency that looks at small parts of what different people are saying and uses them to make better decisions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Summarization
