Analysis of Plan-based Retrieval for Grounded Text Generation

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Main Authors: Godbole, Ameya, Monath, Nicholas, Kim, Seungyeon, Rawat, Ankit Singh, McCallum, Andrew, Zaheer, Manzil
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author Godbole, Ameya
Monath, Nicholas
Kim, Seungyeon
Rawat, Ankit Singh
McCallum, Andrew
Zaheer, Manzil
author_facet Godbole, Ameya
Monath, Nicholas
Kim, Seungyeon
Rawat, Ankit Singh
McCallum, Andrew
Zaheer, Manzil
contents In text generation, hallucinations refer to the generation of seemingly coherent text that contradicts established knowledge. One compelling hypothesis is that hallucinations occur when a language model is given a generation task outside its parametric knowledge (due to rarity, recency, domain, etc.). A common strategy to address this limitation is to infuse the language models with retrieval mechanisms, providing the model with relevant knowledge for the task. In this paper, we leverage the planning capabilities of instruction-tuned LLMs and analyze how planning can be used to guide retrieval to further reduce the frequency of hallucinations. We empirically evaluate several variations of our proposed approach on long-form text generation tasks. By improving the coverage of relevant facts, plan-guided retrieval and generation can produce more informative responses while providing a higher rate of attribution to source documents.
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spellingShingle Analysis of Plan-based Retrieval for Grounded Text Generation
Godbole, Ameya
Monath, Nicholas
Kim, Seungyeon
Rawat, Ankit Singh
McCallum, Andrew
Zaheer, Manzil
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
In text generation, hallucinations refer to the generation of seemingly coherent text that contradicts established knowledge. One compelling hypothesis is that hallucinations occur when a language model is given a generation task outside its parametric knowledge (due to rarity, recency, domain, etc.). A common strategy to address this limitation is to infuse the language models with retrieval mechanisms, providing the model with relevant knowledge for the task. In this paper, we leverage the planning capabilities of instruction-tuned LLMs and analyze how planning can be used to guide retrieval to further reduce the frequency of hallucinations. We empirically evaluate several variations of our proposed approach on long-form text generation tasks. By improving the coverage of relevant facts, plan-guided retrieval and generation can produce more informative responses while providing a higher rate of attribution to source documents.
title Analysis of Plan-based Retrieval for Grounded Text Generation
topic Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10490