Summary of Minicheck: Efficient Fact-checking Of Llms on Grounding Documents, by Liyan Tang et al.
MiniCheck: Efficient Fact-Checking of LLMs on Grounding Documents
by Liyan Tang, Philippe Laban, Greg Durrett
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Apr 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 addresses the problem of grounding language model (LLM) output in evidence, a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP). Current fact-checking approaches rely on verifying each generated piece against potential evidence using an LLM, which is computationally expensive. The authors propose building small fact-checking models with GPT-4-level performance but at a significantly lower cost. They achieve this by constructing synthetic training data with GPT-4, creating realistic yet challenging instances of factual errors through a structured generation procedure. The trained models learn to check each fact in the claim and recognize information synthesis across sentences. For evaluation, the authors unify datasets from recent work on fact-checking and grounding LLM generations into a new benchmark, LLM-AggreFact. Their best system, MiniCheck-FT5 (770M parameters), outperforms comparable-sized systems and reaches GPT-4 accuracy. The paper releases LLM-AggreFact, code for data synthesis, and models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps computers understand if what they say is true or not. Right now, it takes a lot of computer power to check if language models are correct. The authors found a way to make small computers that can do this job well, but much faster and cheaper than before. They did this by making fake training data that’s similar to what real computers would use. This trained the computers to look for mistakes and put together information from different sentences. To test how good these computers are, they combined several datasets into one benchmark called LLM-AggreFact. The best computer they made, called MiniCheck-FT5, is really good at checking facts and does as well as a top-level language model. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Grounding » Language model » Natural language processing » Nlp
