Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning

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Autori principali: Li, Yinghui, Huang, Haojing, Kuang, Jiayi, Li, Yangning, Guo, Shu-Yu, Qu, Chao, Tan, Xiaoyu, Zheng, Hai-Tao, Shen, Ying, Yu, Philip S.
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author Li, Yinghui
Huang, Haojing
Kuang, Jiayi
Li, Yangning
Guo, Shu-Yu
Qu, Chao
Tan, Xiaoyu
Zheng, Hai-Tao
Shen, Ying
Yu, Philip S.
author_facet Li, Yinghui
Huang, Haojing
Kuang, Jiayi
Li, Yangning
Guo, Shu-Yu
Qu, Chao
Tan, Xiaoyu
Zheng, Hai-Tao
Shen, Ying
Yu, Philip S.
contents How to alleviate the hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) has always been the fundamental goal pursued by the LLMs research community. Looking through numerous hallucination-related studies, a mainstream category of methods is to reduce hallucinations by optimizing the knowledge representation of LLMs to change their output. Considering that the core focus of these works is the knowledge acquired by models, and knowledge has long been a central theme in human societal progress, we believe that the process of models refining knowledge can greatly benefit from the way humans learn. In our work, by imitating the human learning process, we design an Adaptive Contrastive Learning strategy. Our method flexibly constructs different positive and negative samples for contrastive learning based on LLMs' actual mastery of knowledge. This strategy helps LLMs consolidate the correct knowledge they already possess, deepen their understanding of the correct knowledge they have encountered but not fully grasped, forget the incorrect knowledge they previously learned, and honestly acknowledge the knowledge they lack. Extensive experiments and detailed analyses on widely used datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
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spellingShingle Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning
Li, Yinghui
Huang, Haojing
Kuang, Jiayi
Li, Yangning
Guo, Shu-Yu
Qu, Chao
Tan, Xiaoyu
Zheng, Hai-Tao
Shen, Ying
Yu, Philip S.
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
How to alleviate the hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) has always been the fundamental goal pursued by the LLMs research community. Looking through numerous hallucination-related studies, a mainstream category of methods is to reduce hallucinations by optimizing the knowledge representation of LLMs to change their output. Considering that the core focus of these works is the knowledge acquired by models, and knowledge has long been a central theme in human societal progress, we believe that the process of models refining knowledge can greatly benefit from the way humans learn. In our work, by imitating the human learning process, we design an Adaptive Contrastive Learning strategy. Our method flexibly constructs different positive and negative samples for contrastive learning based on LLMs' actual mastery of knowledge. This strategy helps LLMs consolidate the correct knowledge they already possess, deepen their understanding of the correct knowledge they have encountered but not fully grasped, forget the incorrect knowledge they previously learned, and honestly acknowledge the knowledge they lack. Extensive experiments and detailed analyses on widely used datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
title Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07184