Mitigating Temporal Misalignment by Discarding Outdated Facts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14824v3
• Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 16:32:58 GMT
• Title: Mitigating Temporal Misalignment by Discarding Outdated Facts
• Authors: Michael J.Q. Zhang and Eunsol Choi
• Abstract summary: Large language models are often used under temporal misalignment, tasked with answering questions about the present. We propose fact duration prediction: the task of predicting how long a given fact will remain true. Our data and code are released publicly at https://github.com/mikejqzhang/mitigating_misalignment.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: While large language models are able to retain vast amounts of world knowledge seen during pretraining, such knowledge is prone to going out of date and is nontrivial to update. Furthermore, these models are often used under temporal misalignment, tasked with answering questions about the present, despite having only been trained on data collected in the past. To mitigate the effects of temporal misalignment, we propose fact duration prediction: the task of predicting how long a given fact will remain true. In our experiments, we demonstrate that identifying which facts are prone to rapid change can help models avoid reciting outdated information and determine which predictions require seeking out up-to-date knowledge sources. We also show how modeling fact duration improves calibration for knowledge-intensive tasks, such as open-retrieval question answering, under temporal misalignment, by discarding volatile facts. Our data and code are released publicly at https://github.com/mikejqzhang/mitigating_misalignment.

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