SAC3: Reliable Hallucination Detection in Black-Box Language Models via Semantic-aware Cross-check Consistency

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العنوان: SAC3: Reliable Hallucination Detection in Black-Box Language Models via Semantic-aware Cross-check Consistency
المؤلفون: Zhang, Jiaxin, Li, Zhuohang, Das, Kamalika, Malin, Bradley A., Kumar, Sricharan
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language
الوصف: Hallucination detection is a critical step toward understanding the trustworthiness of modern language models (LMs). To achieve this goal, we re-examine existing detection approaches based on the self-consistency of LMs and uncover two types of hallucinations resulting from 1) question-level and 2) model-level, which cannot be effectively identified through self-consistency check alone. Building upon this discovery, we propose a novel sampling-based method, i.e., semantic-aware cross-check consistency (SAC3) that expands on the principle of self-consistency checking. Our SAC3 approach incorporates additional mechanisms to detect both question-level and model-level hallucinations by leveraging advances including semantically equivalent question perturbation and cross-model response consistency checking. Through extensive and systematic empirical analysis, we demonstrate that SAC3 outperforms the state of the art in detecting both non-factual and factual statements across multiple question-answering and open-domain generation benchmarks.
Comment: EMNLP 2023
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01740
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2311.01740
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv