Pre-trained Language Models Return Distinguishable Probability Distributions to Unfaithfully Hallucinated Texts

Taehun Cha, Donghun Lee


Abstract
In this work, we show the pre-trained language models return distinguishable generation probability and uncertainty distribution to unfaithfully hallucinated texts, regardless of their size and structure. By examining 24 models on 6 data sets, we find out that 88-98% of cases return statistically significantly distinguishable generation probability and uncertainty distributions. Using this general phenomenon, we showcase a hallucination-reducing training algorithm. Our algorithm outperforms other baselines by achieving higher faithfulness metrics while maintaining sound general text quality measures.
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2024.findings-emnlp.738
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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Taehun Cha and Donghun Lee. 2024. Pre-trained Language Models Return Distinguishable Probability Distributions to Unfaithfully Hallucinated Texts. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 12630–12639, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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