Identifying Factual Inconsistencies in Summaries: Grounding LLM Inference via Task Taxonomy

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Main Authors: Xu, Liyan, Su, Zhenlin, Yu, Mo, Xu, Jin, Choi, Jinho D., Zhou, Jie, Liu, Fei
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author Xu, Liyan
Su, Zhenlin
Yu, Mo
Xu, Jin
Choi, Jinho D.
Zhou, Jie
Liu, Fei
author_facet Xu, Liyan
Su, Zhenlin
Yu, Mo
Xu, Jin
Choi, Jinho D.
Zhou, Jie
Liu, Fei
contents Factual inconsistencies pose a significant hurdle for the faithful summarization by generative models. While a major direction to enhance inconsistency detection is to derive stronger Natural Language Inference (NLI) models, we propose an orthogonal aspect that underscores the importance of incorporating task-specific taxonomy into the inference. To this end, we consolidate key error types of inconsistent facts in summaries, and incorporate them to facilitate both the zero-shot and supervised paradigms of LLMs. Extensive experiments on ten datasets of five distinct domains suggest that, zero-shot LLM inference could benefit from the explicit solution space depicted by the error type taxonomy, and achieves state-of-the-art performance overall, surpassing specialized non-LLM baselines, as well as recent LLM baselines. We further distill models that fuse the taxonomy into parameters through our designed prompt completions and supervised training strategies, efficiently substituting state-of-the-art zero-shot inference with much larger LLMs.
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spellingShingle Identifying Factual Inconsistencies in Summaries: Grounding LLM Inference via Task Taxonomy
Xu, Liyan
Su, Zhenlin
Yu, Mo
Xu, Jin
Choi, Jinho D.
Zhou, Jie
Liu, Fei
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Factual inconsistencies pose a significant hurdle for the faithful summarization by generative models. While a major direction to enhance inconsistency detection is to derive stronger Natural Language Inference (NLI) models, we propose an orthogonal aspect that underscores the importance of incorporating task-specific taxonomy into the inference. To this end, we consolidate key error types of inconsistent facts in summaries, and incorporate them to facilitate both the zero-shot and supervised paradigms of LLMs. Extensive experiments on ten datasets of five distinct domains suggest that, zero-shot LLM inference could benefit from the explicit solution space depicted by the error type taxonomy, and achieves state-of-the-art performance overall, surpassing specialized non-LLM baselines, as well as recent LLM baselines. We further distill models that fuse the taxonomy into parameters through our designed prompt completions and supervised training strategies, efficiently substituting state-of-the-art zero-shot inference with much larger LLMs.
title Identifying Factual Inconsistencies in Summaries: Grounding LLM Inference via Task Taxonomy
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12821