Learning from Self Critique and Refinement for Faithful LLM Summarization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05387v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:59:43 GMT
• Title: Learning from Self Critique and Refinement for Faithful LLM Summarization
• Authors: Ting-Yao Hu, Hema Swetha Koppula, Hadi Pouransari, Cem Koc, Oncel Tuzel, Raviteja Vemulapalli,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucinations when performing long-form text generation tasks such as summarization.<n>We propose Self Critique and Refinement-based Preference Optimization (SCRPO)<n>SCRPO is a self-supervised training framework that first constructs a preference dataset by leveraging the LLM's own critique and refinement capabilities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucinations: output content that is not grounded in the input context, when performing long-form text generation tasks such as summarization. Prior works have shown that hallucinations can be reduced by iteratively critiquing and refining previously generated outputs using either the same model or a more powerful teacher model as the critique. However, these approaches either require additional test-time compute or assume access to more powerful teacher models, making them costly and less practical. In this work, we propose Self Critique and Refinement-based Preference Optimization (SCRPO), which is a self-supervised training framework that first constructs a preference dataset by leveraging the LLM's own critique and refinement capabilities, and then applies preference learning to improve the same LLM for faithful summarization. Experiments on three summarization benchmarks (XSUM CNNDM and SAMSum), demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised learning methods in terms of faithfulness metrics while either maintaining or improving other metrics that measure the overall quality of the summary. Moreover, compared to test-time refinement, our approach not only improves efficiency but also results in more faithful summaries.

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