AbsInstruct: Eliciting Abstraction Ability from LLMs through Explanation Tuning with Plausibility Estimation

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Zhaowei, Fan, Wei, Zong, Qing, Zhang, Hongming, Choi, Sehyun, Fang, Tianqing, Liu, Xin, Song, Yangqiu, Wong, Ginny Y., See, Simon
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author Wang, Zhaowei
Fan, Wei
Zong, Qing
Zhang, Hongming
Choi, Sehyun
Fang, Tianqing
Liu, Xin
Song, Yangqiu
Wong, Ginny Y.
See, Simon
author_facet Wang, Zhaowei
Fan, Wei
Zong, Qing
Zhang, Hongming
Choi, Sehyun
Fang, Tianqing
Liu, Xin
Song, Yangqiu
Wong, Ginny Y.
See, Simon
contents Abstraction ability is crucial in human intelligence, which can also benefit various tasks in NLP study. Existing work shows that LLMs are deficient in abstract ability, and how to improve it remains unexplored. In this work, we design the framework AbsInstruct to enhance LLMs' abstraction ability through instruction tuning. The framework builds instructions with in-depth explanations to assist LLMs in capturing the underlying rationale of abstraction. Meanwhile, we introduce a plausibility estimator to select instructions that are more consistent with the abstraction knowledge of LLMs to be aligned. Then, our framework combines abstraction instructions with general-purpose ones to build a hybrid dataset. Extensive experiments and analyses demonstrate that our framework can considerably enhance LLMs' abstraction ability with strong generalization performance while maintaining their general instruction-following abilities.
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spellingShingle AbsInstruct: Eliciting Abstraction Ability from LLMs through Explanation Tuning with Plausibility Estimation
Wang, Zhaowei
Fan, Wei
Zong, Qing
Zhang, Hongming
Choi, Sehyun
Fang, Tianqing
Liu, Xin
Song, Yangqiu
Wong, Ginny Y.
See, Simon
Computation and Language
Abstraction ability is crucial in human intelligence, which can also benefit various tasks in NLP study. Existing work shows that LLMs are deficient in abstract ability, and how to improve it remains unexplored. In this work, we design the framework AbsInstruct to enhance LLMs' abstraction ability through instruction tuning. The framework builds instructions with in-depth explanations to assist LLMs in capturing the underlying rationale of abstraction. Meanwhile, we introduce a plausibility estimator to select instructions that are more consistent with the abstraction knowledge of LLMs to be aligned. Then, our framework combines abstraction instructions with general-purpose ones to build a hybrid dataset. Extensive experiments and analyses demonstrate that our framework can considerably enhance LLMs' abstraction ability with strong generalization performance while maintaining their general instruction-following abilities.
title AbsInstruct: Eliciting Abstraction Ability from LLMs through Explanation Tuning with Plausibility Estimation
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10646