Summary of Primeguard: Safe and Helpful Llms Through Tuning-free Routing, by Blazej Manczak et al.
PrimeGuard: Safe and Helpful LLMs through Tuning-Free Routing
by Blazej Manczak, Eliott Zemour, Eric Lin, Vaikkunth Mugunthan
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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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 presents a solution for deploying language models (LMs) while ensuring their outputs meet safety guidelines and are both high-quality and compliant. The authors highlight the trade-off between safety and helpfulness in current Inference-Time Guardrail (ITG) methods, where those that prioritize safety exhibit lower helpfulness, and vice versa. They coin this phenomenon as the “guardrail tax.” To overcome this challenge, they propose PrimeGuard, a novel ITG method that utilizes structured control flow. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how to make language models safe and good at helping people while also following rules. The current ways of doing this have a problem: if we prioritize making sure the model is safe, it’s not very helpful, and vice versa. This is like a trade-off between safety and being able to do things well. To solve this, the researchers came up with a new way called PrimeGuard that helps make language models both safe and good at helping. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
