Summary of On the True Distribution Approximation Of Minimum Bayes-risk Decoding, by Atsumoto Ohashi et al.
On the True Distribution Approximation of Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding
by Atsumoto Ohashi, Ukyo Honda, Tetsuro Morimura, Yuu Jinnai
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Mar 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 proposes using anomaly detection to measure how well sampling methods approximate the true distribution of references in minimum Bayes-risk (MBR) decoding, a technique used in text generation. The authors first analyze the performance variation caused by different sampling methods and find that previous hypotheses about samples do not correlate well with this variation. Instead, they introduce an anomaly score metric that does show a link between the performance and the core assumption of MBR decoding. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is all about how we can make text generation better by looking at how closely our computer-generated texts match real texts. We currently use something called minimum Bayes-risk (MBR) decoding to do this, but it’s not perfect because different ways of generating these texts affect the results. The researchers looked into why this happens and found that some ways are better than others. They also came up with a new way to measure how well our generated texts match real texts, which shows us that MBR decoding is more important than we thought. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Text generation
