Summary of No Free Lunch: Fundamental Limits Of Learning Non-hallucinating Generative Models, by Changlong Wu et al.
No Free Lunch: Fundamental Limits of Learning Non-Hallucinating Generative Models
by Changlong Wu, Ananth Grama, Wojciech Szpankowski
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 develops a theoretical framework to analyze the learnability of non-hallucinating generative models from a learning-theoretic perspective. It reveals that relying solely on the training dataset makes statistical impossibility for non-hallucinating learning, even when the hypothesis class is size two and the entire training set is truthful. To overcome this limitation, incorporating inductive biases aligned with actual facts into the learning process is crucial. The paper provides a systematic approach to achieve this by restricting the fact set to a concept class of finite VC-dimension, demonstrating its effectiveness under various learning paradigms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Generative models are really good at creating realistic texts and images! However, sometimes they create things that sound real but aren’t actually true. This is called “hallucination”. Scientists want to make sure their models don’t do this so much. In this paper, researchers created a new way to understand why some models can or can’t avoid making these mistakes. They found that just using the training data isn’t enough and we need to add special rules to help the model learn correctly. This is an important step in making sure our AI models are reliable. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hallucination
