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Autores principales: Wang, Hongru, Xue, Boyang, Zhou, Baohang, Zhang, Tianhua, Wang, Cunxiang, Wang, Huimin, Chen, Guanhua, Wong, Kam-fai
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13514
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  • Previous research has typically concentrated on leveraging the internal knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) to answer known questions (i.e., \textit{internal reasoning such as generate-then-read}). In contrast, for questions that fall outside their known scope, these models rely on external knowledge retrieval to provide accurate responses (i.e., \textit{external acting such as retrieve-then-read}). However, few previous works consider the \textit{compositional questions}, which consist of several known and unknown sub-questions, necessitating the dynamic combination of previous two methods (i.e., \textit{internal reasoning and external acting}) to achieve a better trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. To this end, we introduce a \textbf{Self} \textbf{D}ivide-and-\textbf{C}onquer (\textit{\texttt{Self-DC}}) framework, accompanying with the first \textbf{C}ompositional \textbf{u}nknown \textbf{Q}uestion-\textbf{A}nswering dataset (CuQA). This framework enables LLMs to adaptively choose between using internal knowledge and retrieving external knowledge as needed, resulting in a better trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that \textit{\texttt{Self-DC}} can achieve comparable or even better performance with much fewer external calls compared with several strong baselines.