Company
Date Published
Aug. 24, 2023
Author
Pratik Bhavsar
Word count
1844
Language
English
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None

Summary

The text discusses various techniques to detect and mitigate hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) used for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Hallucinations occur when a model generates output that is not present in the training data, often resulting from overconfidence or lack of understanding. The five approaches explored are: 1) Seq-Logprob, which calculates the length-normalized sequence log-probability to evaluate translation quality; 2) Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations in Machine Translation using sentence similarity and NLI-based reference-free techniques; 3) SelfCheckGPT, a zero-resource black-box approach that uses BERTScore to detect hallucination by evaluating the consistency of generated text with its source; 4) Evaluating Factual Consistency of Large Language Models through News Summarization, which uses different prompting techniques and models to find the best ways to detect hallucinations in summaries; and 5) G-Eval, a framework for NLG evaluation using chain-of-thoughts and form filling. These approaches have varying degrees of success and can be combined to improve performance. The Galileo LLM Studio is mentioned as a platform that provides metrics to identify and mitigate hallucinations.