Shayan Ray


2024

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GrounDial: Human-norm Grounded Safe Dialog Response Generation
Siwon Kim | Shuyang Dai | Mohammad Kachuee | Shayan Ray | Tara Taghavi | Sungroh Yoon
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024

Current conversational AI systems based on large language models (LLMs) are known to generate unsafe responses agreeing to offensive user input or including toxic content. Previous research aimed to alleviate the toxicity by fine-tuning LLM with manually annotated safe dialogue histories. However, the dependency on additional tuning requires substantial costs. To remove the dependency, we propose GrounDial, where response safety is achieved by grounding responses to commonsense social rules without requiring fine-tuning. A hybrid approach of in-context learning and human-norm-guided decoding of GrounDial enables the response to be quantitatively and qualitatively safer even without additional data or tuning.