Learning to Generate Answers with Citations via Factual Consistency Models
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13124v2
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:04:05 GMT
- Title: Learning to Generate Answers with Citations via Factual Consistency Models
- Authors: Rami Aly, Zhiqiang Tang, Samson Tan, George Karypis,
- Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate, impeding their reliability in mission-critical situations.
This paper proposes a weakly-supervised fine-tuning method leveraging factual consistency models (FCMs)
Focused learning is integrated into the objective, directing the fine-tuning process to emphasise the factual unit tokens.
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- Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate, impeding their reliability in mission-critical situations. One approach to address this issue is to provide citations to relevant sources alongside generated content, enhancing the verifiability of generations. However, citing passages accurately in answers remains a substantial challenge. This paper proposes a weakly-supervised fine-tuning method leveraging factual consistency models (FCMs). Our approach alternates between generating texts with citations and supervised fine-tuning with FCM-filtered citation data. Focused learning is integrated into the objective, directing the fine-tuning process to emphasise the factual unit tokens, as measured by an FCM. Results on the ALCE few-shot citation benchmark with various instruction-tuned LLMs demonstrate superior performance compared to in-context learning, vanilla supervised fine-tuning, and state-of-the-art methods, with an average improvement of $34.1$, $15.5$, and $10.5$ citation F$_1$ points, respectively. Moreover, in a domain transfer setting we show that the obtained citation generation ability robustly transfers to unseen datasets. Notably, our citation improvements contribute to the lowest factual error rate across baselines.
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