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Main Authors: Sun, Guangzhi, Kagrecha, Anmol, Manakul, Potsawee, Woodland, Phil, Gales, Mark
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10215
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author Sun, Guangzhi
Kagrecha, Anmol
Manakul, Potsawee
Woodland, Phil
Gales, Mark
author_facet Sun, Guangzhi
Kagrecha, Anmol
Manakul, Potsawee
Woodland, Phil
Gales, Mark
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assess NLP tasks due to their ability to generate human-like judgments. Single LLMs were used initially, however, recent work suggests using multiple LLMs as judges yields improved performance. An important step in exploiting multiple judgements is the combination stage, aggregation. Existing methods in NLP either assign equal weight to all LLM judgments or are designed for specific tasks such as hallucination detection. This work focuses on aggregating predictions from multiple systems where no reference labels are available. A new method called SkillAggregation is proposed, which learns to combine estimates from LLM judges without needing additional data or ground truth. It extends the Crowdlayer aggregation method, developed for image classification, to exploit the judge estimates during inference. The approach is compared to a range of standard aggregation methods on HaluEval-Dialogue, TruthfulQA and Chatbot Arena tasks. SkillAggregation outperforms Crowdlayer on all tasks, and yields the best performance over all approaches on the majority of tasks.
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spellingShingle SkillAggregation: Reference-free LLM-Dependent Aggregation
Sun, Guangzhi
Kagrecha, Anmol
Manakul, Potsawee
Woodland, Phil
Gales, Mark
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assess NLP tasks due to their ability to generate human-like judgments. Single LLMs were used initially, however, recent work suggests using multiple LLMs as judges yields improved performance. An important step in exploiting multiple judgements is the combination stage, aggregation. Existing methods in NLP either assign equal weight to all LLM judgments or are designed for specific tasks such as hallucination detection. This work focuses on aggregating predictions from multiple systems where no reference labels are available. A new method called SkillAggregation is proposed, which learns to combine estimates from LLM judges without needing additional data or ground truth. It extends the Crowdlayer aggregation method, developed for image classification, to exploit the judge estimates during inference. The approach is compared to a range of standard aggregation methods on HaluEval-Dialogue, TruthfulQA and Chatbot Arena tasks. SkillAggregation outperforms Crowdlayer on all tasks, and yields the best performance over all approaches on the majority of tasks.
title SkillAggregation: Reference-free LLM-Dependent Aggregation
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10215