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title = "Active Learning for Robust and Representative {LLM} Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios",
author = "Hassan, Sabit and
Sicilia, Anthony and
Alikhani, Malihe",
editor = "Kumar, Sachin and
Balachandran, Vidhisha and
Park, Chan Young and
Shi, Weijia and
Hayati, Shirley Anugrah and
Tsvetkov, Yulia and
Smith, Noah and
Hajishirzi, Hannaneh and
Kang, Dongyeop and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U)",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.customnlp4u-1.10",
pages = "113--123",
abstract = "Ensuring robust safety measures across a wide range of scenarios is crucial for user-facing systems. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate valuable data for safety measures, they often exhibit distributional biases, focusing on common scenarios and neglecting rare but critical cases. This can undermine the effectiveness of safety protocols developed using such data. To address this, we propose a novel framework that integrates active learning with clustering to guide LLM generation, enhancing their representativeness and robustness in safety scenarios. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by constructing a dataset of 5.4K potential safety violations through an iterative process involving LLM generation and an active learner model{'}s feedback. Our results show that the proposed framework produces a more representative set of safety scenarios without requiring prior knowledge of the underlying data distribution. Additionally, data acquired through our method improves the accuracy and F1 score of both the active learner model as well models outside the scope of active learning process, highlighting its broad applicability.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Active Learning for Robust and Representative LLM Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios
%A Hassan, Sabit
%A Sicilia, Anthony
%A Alikhani, Malihe
%Y Kumar, Sachin
%Y Balachandran, Vidhisha
%Y Park, Chan Young
%Y Shi, Weijia
%Y Hayati, Shirley Anugrah
%Y Tsvetkov, Yulia
%Y Smith, Noah
%Y Hajishirzi, Hannaneh
%Y Kang, Dongyeop
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges in Customizing NLP for a Domain, Application, Group, or Individual (CustomNLP4U)
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
%F hassan-etal-2024-active
%X Ensuring robust safety measures across a wide range of scenarios is crucial for user-facing systems. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate valuable data for safety measures, they often exhibit distributional biases, focusing on common scenarios and neglecting rare but critical cases. This can undermine the effectiveness of safety protocols developed using such data. To address this, we propose a novel framework that integrates active learning with clustering to guide LLM generation, enhancing their representativeness and robustness in safety scenarios. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by constructing a dataset of 5.4K potential safety violations through an iterative process involving LLM generation and an active learner model’s feedback. Our results show that the proposed framework produces a more representative set of safety scenarios without requiring prior knowledge of the underlying data distribution. Additionally, data acquired through our method improves the accuracy and F1 score of both the active learner model as well models outside the scope of active learning process, highlighting its broad applicability.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.customnlp4u-1.10
%P 113-123
Markdown (Informal)
[Active Learning for Robust and Representative LLM Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios](https://aclanthology.org/2024.customnlp4u-1.10) (Hassan et al., CustomNLP4U 2024)
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