Summary of Towards Tracing Trustworthiness Dynamics: Revisiting Pre-training Period Of Large Language Models, by Chen Qian et al.
Towards Tracing Trustworthiness Dynamics: Revisiting Pre-training Period of Large Language Models
by Chen Qian, Jie Zhang, Wei Yao, Dongrui Liu, Zhenfei Yin, Yu Qiao, Yong Liu, Jing Shao
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Feb 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 pioneers the exploration of large language models’ (LLMs) trustworthiness during pre-training, focusing on five key dimensions: reliability, privacy, toxicity, fairness, and robustness. It uses linear probing to analyze LLMs in early pre-training, finding high probing accuracy that suggests they can already distinguish concepts in each trustworthiness dimension. The paper then extracts steering vectors from a LLM’s pre-training checkpoints to enhance its trustworthiness. Additionally, it probes LLMs with mutual information to investigate the dynamics of trustworthiness during pre-training. The research provides an initial exploration of trustworthiness modeling during LLM pre-training and aims to unveil new insights and spur further developments in the field. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how trustworthy large language models (LLMs) are, especially when they’re still being trained. They try to figure out what makes them more or less trustworthy by looking at five different things: whether they’re reliable, private, toxic, fair, and robust. To do this, they use a special method called linear probing that helps them understand how the LLM is doing as it’s training. They also look at how well the LLM can tell the difference between concepts in each of these trustworthiness areas. The researchers want to see if there’s anything new they can learn by looking at how trustworthy LLMs are during their training, and they hope that their findings will help others make better language models. |
