A Survey of LLM Alignment: Instruction Understanding, Intention Reasoning, and Reliable Generation

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Main Authors: Chang, Zongyu, Lu, Feihong, Zhu, Ziqin, Li, Qian, Ji, Cheng, Yang, Tao, Chen, Zhuo, Peng, Hao, Liu, Yang, Xu, Ruifeng, Song, Yangqiu, Li, Jianxin, Wang, Shangguang
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author Chang, Zongyu
Lu, Feihong
Zhu, Ziqin
Li, Qian
Ji, Cheng
Yang, Tao
Chen, Zhuo
Peng, Hao
Liu, Yang
Xu, Ruifeng
Song, Yangqiu
Li, Jianxin
Wang, Shangguang
author_facet Chang, Zongyu
Lu, Feihong
Zhu, Ziqin
Li, Qian
Ji, Cheng
Yang, Tao
Chen, Zhuo
Peng, Hao
Liu, Yang
Xu, Ruifeng
Song, Yangqiu
Li, Jianxin
Wang, Shangguang
contents Large language models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in understanding and generation. However, in real-world scenarios, users' natural language expressions are often inherently fuzzy, ambiguous, and uncertain, leading to challenges such as vagueness, polysemy, and contextual ambiguity. This paper focuses on three challenges in LLM-based text generation tasks: instruction understanding, intention reasoning, and reliable dialog generation. Regarding human complex instruction, LLMs have deficiencies in understanding long contexts and instructions in multi-round conversations. For intention reasoning, LLMs may have inconsistent command reasoning, difficulty reasoning about commands containing incorrect information, difficulty understanding user ambiguous language commands, and a weak understanding of user intention in commands. Besides, In terms of Reliable Dialog Generation, LLMs may have unstable generated content and unethical generation. To this end, we classify and analyze the performance of LLMs in challenging scenarios and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of existing solutions. Furthermore, we introduce benchmarks and categorize them based on the aforementioned three core challenges. Finally, we explore potential directions for future research to enhance the reliability and adaptability of LLMs in real-world applications.
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spellingShingle A Survey of LLM Alignment: Instruction Understanding, Intention Reasoning, and Reliable Generation
Chang, Zongyu
Lu, Feihong
Zhu, Ziqin
Li, Qian
Ji, Cheng
Yang, Tao
Chen, Zhuo
Peng, Hao
Liu, Yang
Xu, Ruifeng
Song, Yangqiu
Li, Jianxin
Wang, Shangguang
Human-Computer Interaction
Large language models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in understanding and generation. However, in real-world scenarios, users' natural language expressions are often inherently fuzzy, ambiguous, and uncertain, leading to challenges such as vagueness, polysemy, and contextual ambiguity. This paper focuses on three challenges in LLM-based text generation tasks: instruction understanding, intention reasoning, and reliable dialog generation. Regarding human complex instruction, LLMs have deficiencies in understanding long contexts and instructions in multi-round conversations. For intention reasoning, LLMs may have inconsistent command reasoning, difficulty reasoning about commands containing incorrect information, difficulty understanding user ambiguous language commands, and a weak understanding of user intention in commands. Besides, In terms of Reliable Dialog Generation, LLMs may have unstable generated content and unethical generation. To this end, we classify and analyze the performance of LLMs in challenging scenarios and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of existing solutions. Furthermore, we introduce benchmarks and categorize them based on the aforementioned three core challenges. Finally, we explore potential directions for future research to enhance the reliability and adaptability of LLMs in real-world applications.
title A Survey of LLM Alignment: Instruction Understanding, Intention Reasoning, and Reliable Generation
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09101