Summary of Question Rephrasing For Quantifying Uncertainty in Large Language Models: Applications in Molecular Chemistry Tasks, by Zizhang Chen et al.
Question Rephrasing for Quantifying Uncertainty in Large Language Models: Applications in Molecular Chemistry Tasks
by Zizhang Chen, Pengyu Hong, Sandeep Madireddy
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
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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 introduces a novel Question Rephrasing technique to quantify input uncertainty in large language models (LLMs). The technique assesses the reliability of LLM responses by considering equivalent variations of input queries. By integrating this method with sampling techniques that measure output uncertainty, the approach provides a more comprehensive uncertainty evaluation for LLMs. The authors demonstrate their method’s effectiveness on property prediction and reaction prediction tasks in molecular chemistry. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making sure large language models are giving us reliable answers by accounting for slight changes in what we ask them. It’s like asking someone to repeat something back to you, but with computers! They came up with a new way to do this, called Question Rephrasing, and tested it on some chemistry problems. Now we can get a better idea of how sure we are about the answers these models give us. |
