How Far Can We Extract Diverse Perspectives from Large Language Models?

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Main Authors: Hayati, Shirley Anugrah, Lee, Minhwa, Rajagopal, Dheeraj, Kang, Dongyeop
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Published: 2023
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author Hayati, Shirley Anugrah
Lee, Minhwa
Rajagopal, Dheeraj
Kang, Dongyeop
author_facet Hayati, Shirley Anugrah
Lee, Minhwa
Rajagopal, Dheeraj
Kang, Dongyeop
contents Collecting diverse human opinions is costly and challenging. This leads to a recent trend in exploiting large language models (LLMs) for generating diverse data for potential scalable and efficient solutions. However, the extent to which LLMs can generate diverse perspectives on subjective topics is still unclear. In this study, we explore LLMs' capacity of generating diverse perspectives and rationales on subjective topics such as social norms and argumentative texts. We introduce the problem of extracting maximum diversity from LLMs. Motivated by how humans form opinions based on values, we propose a criteria-based prompting technique to ground diverse opinions. To see how far we can extract diverse perspectives from LLMs, or called diversity coverage, we employ a step-by-step recall prompting to generate more outputs from the model iteratively. Our methods, applied to various tasks, show that LLMs can indeed produce diverse opinions according to the degree of task subjectivity. We also find that LLM's performance of extracting maximum diversity is on par with human.
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spellingShingle How Far Can We Extract Diverse Perspectives from Large Language Models?
Hayati, Shirley Anugrah
Lee, Minhwa
Rajagopal, Dheeraj
Kang, Dongyeop
Computation and Language
Collecting diverse human opinions is costly and challenging. This leads to a recent trend in exploiting large language models (LLMs) for generating diverse data for potential scalable and efficient solutions. However, the extent to which LLMs can generate diverse perspectives on subjective topics is still unclear. In this study, we explore LLMs' capacity of generating diverse perspectives and rationales on subjective topics such as social norms and argumentative texts. We introduce the problem of extracting maximum diversity from LLMs. Motivated by how humans form opinions based on values, we propose a criteria-based prompting technique to ground diverse opinions. To see how far we can extract diverse perspectives from LLMs, or called diversity coverage, we employ a step-by-step recall prompting to generate more outputs from the model iteratively. Our methods, applied to various tasks, show that LLMs can indeed produce diverse opinions according to the degree of task subjectivity. We also find that LLM's performance of extracting maximum diversity is on par with human.
title How Far Can We Extract Diverse Perspectives from Large Language Models?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09799