NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models

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Auteurs principaux: Hu, Minda, Zhang, Qiyuan, Wang, Yufei, He, Bowei, Wang, Hongru, Zhou, Jingyan, Li, Liangyou, Wang, Yasheng, Ma, Chen, King, Irwin
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author Hu, Minda
Zhang, Qiyuan
Wang, Yufei
He, Bowei
Wang, Hongru
Zhou, Jingyan
Li, Liangyou
Wang, Yasheng
Ma, Chen
King, Irwin
author_facet Hu, Minda
Zhang, Qiyuan
Wang, Yufei
He, Bowei
Wang, Hongru
Zhou, Jingyan
Li, Liangyou
Wang, Yasheng
Ma, Chen
King, Irwin
contents As a crucial step to enhance LLMs alignment with human intentions, Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) has a high demand on dataset quality. However, existing IFT datasets often contain knowledge that is inconsistent with LLMs' internal knowledge learned from the pre-training phase, which can greatly affect the efficacy of IFT. To address this issue, we introduce NILE (iNternal consIstency aLignmEnt) framework, aimed at optimizing IFT datasets to unlock LLMs' capability further. NILE operates by eliciting target pre-trained LLM's internal knowledge corresponding to instruction data. The internal knowledge is leveraged to revise the answer in IFT datasets. Additionally, we propose a novel Internal Consistency Filtering (ICF) method to filter training samples, ensuring its high consistency with LLM's internal knowledge. Our experiments demonstrate that NILE-aligned IFT datasets sharply boost LLM performance across multiple LLM ability evaluation datasets, achieving up to 66.6% gain on Arena-Hard and 68.5% on Alpaca-Eval V2. Further analysis confirms that each component of the NILE}framework contributes to these substantial performance improvements, and provides compelling evidence that dataset consistency with pre-trained internal knowledge is pivotal for maximizing LLM potential.
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spellingShingle NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models
Hu, Minda
Zhang, Qiyuan
Wang, Yufei
He, Bowei
Wang, Hongru
Zhou, Jingyan
Li, Liangyou
Wang, Yasheng
Ma, Chen
King, Irwin
Computation and Language
As a crucial step to enhance LLMs alignment with human intentions, Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) has a high demand on dataset quality. However, existing IFT datasets often contain knowledge that is inconsistent with LLMs' internal knowledge learned from the pre-training phase, which can greatly affect the efficacy of IFT. To address this issue, we introduce NILE (iNternal consIstency aLignmEnt) framework, aimed at optimizing IFT datasets to unlock LLMs' capability further. NILE operates by eliciting target pre-trained LLM's internal knowledge corresponding to instruction data. The internal knowledge is leveraged to revise the answer in IFT datasets. Additionally, we propose a novel Internal Consistency Filtering (ICF) method to filter training samples, ensuring its high consistency with LLM's internal knowledge. Our experiments demonstrate that NILE-aligned IFT datasets sharply boost LLM performance across multiple LLM ability evaluation datasets, achieving up to 66.6% gain on Arena-Hard and 68.5% on Alpaca-Eval V2. Further analysis confirms that each component of the NILE}framework contributes to these substantial performance improvements, and provides compelling evidence that dataset consistency with pre-trained internal knowledge is pivotal for maximizing LLM potential.
title NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16686