Yong Zhao


2024

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Don’t Just Say “I don’t know”! Self-aligning Large Language Models for Responding to Unknown Questions with Explanations
Yang Deng | Yong Zhao | Moxin Li | See-Kiong Ng | Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Despite the remarkable abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to answer questions, they often display a considerable level of overconfidence even when the question does not have a definitive answer. To avoid providing hallucinated answers to these unknown questions, existing studies typically investigate approaches to refusing to answer these questions. In this work, we propose a novel and scalable self-alignment method to utilize the LLM itself to enhance its response-ability to different types of unknown questions, being capable of not just refusing to answer but further proactively providing explanations to the unanswerability of unknown questions. Specifically, the Self-Align method first employ a two-stage class-aware self-augmentation approach to generate a large amount of unknown question-response data. Then we conduct disparity-driven self-curation to select qualified data for fine-tuning the LLM itself for aligning the responses to unknown questions as desired. Experimental results on two datasets across four types of unknown questions validate the superiority of the Self-Aligned method over existing baselines in terms of three types of task formulation.

2009

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Using N-gram based Features for Machine Translation System Combination
Yong Zhao | Xiaodong He
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers