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Value alignment is crucial for the responsible development of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, how to define values in this context remains largely unexplored. Existing work mainly specifies values as risk criteria formulated in the AI community, e.g., fairness and privacy protection, suffering from poor clarity, adaptability and transparency. Leveraging basic values established in humanity and social science that are compatible with values across cultures, this paper introduces a novel value space spanned by multiple basic value dimensions and proposes BaseAlign, a corresponding value alignment paradigm. Applying the representative Schwartz&#39;s Theory of Basic Values as an instantiation, we construct FULCRA, a dataset consisting of 20k $($LLM output, value vector$)$ pairs. LLMs&#39; outputs are mapped into the $K$-dim value space beyond simple binary labels, by identifying their underlying priorities for these value dimensions. Extensive analysis and experiments on FULCRA: (1) reveal the essential relation between basic values and LLMs&#39; behaviors, (2) demonstrate that our paradigm with basic values not only covers existing risks but also anticipates the unidentified ones, and (3) manifest BaseAlign&#39;s superiority in alignment performance with less data, paving the way for addressing the above three challenges.

NAACL 2024

Value FULCRA: Mapping Large Language Models to the Multidimensional Spectrum of Basic Human Value

schwartz basic values

value alignment

large language models

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Value alignment is crucial for the responsible development of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, how to define values in this context remains largely unexplored. Existing work mainly specifies values as risk criteria formulated in the AI community, e.g., fairness and privacy protection, suffering from poor clarity, adaptability and transparency. Leveraging basic values established in humanity and social science that are compatible with values across cultures, this paper introduces a novel value space spanned by multiple basic value dimensions and proposes BaseAlign, a corresponding value alignment paradigm. Applying the representative Schwartz's Theory of Basic Values as an instantiation, we construct FULCRA, a dataset consisting of 20k $($LLM output, value vector$)$ pairs. LLMs' outputs are mapped into the $K$-dim value space beyond simple binary labels, by identifying their underlying priorities for these value dimensions. Extensive analysis and experiments on FULCRA: (1) reveal the essential relation between basic values and LLMs' behaviors, (2) demonstrate that our paradigm with basic values not only covers existing risks but also anticipates the unidentified ones, and (3) manifest BaseAlign's superiority in alignment performance with less data, paving the way for addressing the above three challenges.

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Language-vision models like CLIP have made significant strides in vision tasks, such as zero-shot image classification (ZSIC). However, generating specific and expressive visual descriptions remains challenging; descriptions produced by current methods are often ambiguous and lacking in granularity. To tackle these issues, we propose V-GLOSS: Visual Glosses, a novel method built upon two key ideas. The first is Semantic Prompting, which conditions a language model on structured semantic knowledge. The second is a new contrastive algorithm that elicits fine-grained distinctions between similar concepts. With both ideas, we demonstrate that V-GLOSS improves visual descriptions and achieves strong results in the zero-shot setting on general and fine-grained image-classification datasets, including ImageNet, STL-10, FGVC Aircraft, and Flowers 102. Moreover, these descriptive capabilities contribute to enhancing image-generation performance. Finally, we introduce a quality-tested silver dataset with descriptions generated with V-GLOSS for all ImageNet classes.

Semantically-Prompted Language Models Improve Visual Descriptions

The opaque nature of neural networks, often described as black boxes, poses significant challenges in understanding their learning mechanisms, which limit our ability to fully optimize and trust these models.
Inspired by how humans learn, this paper proposes a novel neural network training strategy that employs multitask learning with progressive difficulty subtasks, which we believe can potentially shed light on the internal learning mechanisms of neural networks.
We implemented this strategy across a range of NLP tasks, data sets, and neural network architectures and observed notable improvements in model performance.
This suggests that neural networks may be able to extract common features and internalize shared representations across similar subtasks that differ in their difficulty.
Analyzing this strategy could lead us to more interpretable and robust neural networks, enhancing both their performance and our understanding of their nature.

Multitasking with Progressive Difficulty Subtasks: Enhancing Performance in Natural Language Processing Tasks

To achieve good retrieval performance, Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) models must provide high-quality representations for queries and passages. For this purpose, we propose M2DPR, a multi-task multi-view representation learning framework which consists of a deep encoder and multiple shallow decoders. In the pre-training phase, the encoder encodes the input text's information into multiple dense vectors which will be passed to the decoders to accomplish different pre-training tasks so that different perspectives of the input text's information can be captured. In the fine-tuning and inference phases, we discard the decoders and use the weighted sum of the above mentioned vectors as the input text's representation. The results of experiments show the effectiveness of our method.

M2DPR: A Multi-task Multi-view Representation Learning Framework for Dense Passage Retrieval

Code clone detection is challenging, as source code can be written in different languages, do-mains, and styles. In this paper, we argue that source code is inherently a graph, not a sequence, and that graph-based methods are more suitable for code clone detection than sequence-based methods. We compare the per-formance of two state-of-the-art models: Code-BERT (Feng et al., 2020), a sequence-based model, and CodeGraph (Yu et al., 2023), a graph-based model, on two benchmark data-sets: BCB (Svajlenko et al., 2014) and PoolC(PoolC, no date). We show that CodeGraphoutperforms CodeBERT on both data-sets, es-pecially on cross-lingual code clones. To thebest of our knowledge, this is the first work todemonstrate the cross-lingual code clone detec-tion showing superiority on graph-based methods over sequence-based methods

Source Code is a Graph, Not a Sequence: A Cross-Lingual Perspective on Code Clone Detection

Shears is an end-to-end model adaptation solution that demonstrates how integrating cost-effective sparsity and a proposed Neural Low-rank adapter Search (NLS) algorithm can further improve the efficiency of Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT) approaches. Results demonstrate the benefits of Shears compared to other methods, reaching high sparsity levels while improving or with little drop in the model’s accuracy.

Shears: Unstructured Sparsity with Neural Low-rank Adapter Search

This demo introduces a novel human-LLM interaction framework, Low-code LLM. It incorporates six types of simple low-code visual programming interactions to achieve more controllable and stable responses. Through visual interaction with a graphical user interface, users can incorporate their ideas into the process without writing trivial prompts.

Low-code LLM: Graphical User Interface over Large Language Models

We present a novel approach to predicting source-and-target factuality by transforming it into a linearized tree generation task. Unlike previous work, our model and representation format fully account for the factuality tree structure, generating the full chain of nested sources instead of the last source only. Furthermore, our linearized tree representation significantly compresses the amount of tokens needed compared to other representations, allowing for fully end-to-end systems. We achieve state-of-the-art results on FactBank and the Modal Dependency Corpus, which are both corpora annotating source-and-target event factuality. Our results on fine-tuning validate the strong generality of the proposed linearized tree generation task, which can be easily adapted to other corpora with a similar structure. We then present BeLeaf, a system which directly leverages the linearized tree representation to create both sentence level and document level visualizations. Our system adds several missing pieces to the source-and-target factuality task such as coreference resolution and event head word to syntactic span conversion. Our demo code is available on https://github.com/yurpl/beleaf and our video is available on https://youtu.be/SpbMNnin-Po.

BeLeaf: Belief Prediction as Tree Generation

Foundation models have demonstrated a great ability to achieve general human-level intelligence far beyond traditional approaches. As the technique keeps attracting attention from the AI community, an increasing number of foundation models are becoming publicly accessible. However, a significant shortcoming of most of these models lies in their performance in specialized-domain and task-specific applications, necessitating domain- and task-aware fine-tuning to develop effective scientific language models. As the number of available foundation models and specialized tasks keeps growing, the job of training scientific language models becomes highly nontrivial. In this paper, we initiate steps to tackle this issue. We introduce an extensible and lightweight toolkit, LMFlow, which aims to simplify the domain- and task-aware finetuning of general foundation models. LMFlow offers a complete finetuning workflow for a foundation model to support specialized training with limited computing resources. Furthermore, it supports continuous pretraining, instruction tuning, parameter-efficient finetuning, alignment tuning, inference acceleration, long context generalization, model customization, and even multimodal finetuning, along with carefully designed and extensible APIs. This toolkit has been thoroughly tested and is available at https://github.com/OptimalScale/LMFlow.

LMFlow: An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models

The swift advancement in large language models (LLMs) has heightened the importance of
model evaluations. LLMs have acquired a substantial amount of knowledge, and evaluating
the knowledge of these LLMs is crucial. To address this, we introduce the ZhuJiu-Knowledge
benchmark which carefully considers the following factors: (1) For knowledge scope, we
concentrate on three domains: commonsense
knowledge, world knowledge, language knowledge, which comes from ATOMIC, Conceptnet, Wikidata, and Wordnet. (2) For data construction, to prevent data contamination, we
utilize knowledge derived from corpora and
knowledge graphs to formulate novel questions
that are ensured not to appear in the training
corpus. A multitude of prompts is purposefully devised to mitigate the impact of prompt
design on evaluation and to further analyze
the LLMs’ sensitivity to various prompts. (3)
For evaluation criteria, we propose a novel
voting methodology for assessing generative
text, aligning the model’s evaluation with human preferences to reduce biases inherent in
individual model assessments. We evaluate
14 current mainstream LLMs and conduct a
comprehensive discussion and analysis of their
results. The ZhuJiu-Knowledge benchmark
and open-participation leaderboard are publicly
released at http://zhujiu-knowledge.top/
and we also provide a demo video at https:
//youtu.be/QJp4qlEHVH8.


ZhuJiu-Knowledge: A Fairer Platform for Evaluating Multiple Knowledge Types in Large Language Models

How can Large Language Models (LLMs) and modern NLP be used to increase the use and the documentation of Indigenous languages which are in danger of disappearing? First, I report on the development of high-quality translators for Indigenous languages by fine-tuning SOTA machine translators with tiny amounts of data, and discuss how to avoid some common pitfalls. Next, I present prototypes built with Indigenous communities aiming to stimulate and facilitate writing, using LLM models to create spell-checkers, next-word predictors, and similar tools. Finally, I discuss a future for documentation where dying languages are preserved as interactive language models.

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