UHGEval: Benchmarking the Hallucination of Chinese Large Language Models via Unconstrained Generation

📄 arXiv: 2311.15296v3 📥 PDF

作者: Xun Liang, Shichao Song, Simin Niu, Zhiyu Li, Feiyu Xiong, Bo Tang, Yezhaohui Wang, Dawei He, Peng Cheng, Zhonghao Wang, Haiying Deng

分类: cs.CL

发布日期: 2023-11-26 (更新: 2024-05-24)

备注: Accepted by ACL 2024

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.288


💡 一句话要点

提出UHGEval基准以评估中文大语言模型的幻觉生成问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 大语言模型 幻觉生成 无约束评估 中文自然语言处理 模型评估 文本生成 基准测试

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有评估基准多采用受限生成技术,无法真实反映大语言模型在实际应用中的表现。
  2. 提出无约束幻觉生成评估(UHGEval)基准,旨在通过最小限制的输出评估LLMs的文本生成质量。
  3. 通过对多个中文语言模型及GPT系列模型的实验,获得了关于幻觉生成的专业性能见解。

📝 摘要(中文)

大语言模型(LLMs)在自然语言处理领域发挥着重要作用,但在专业内容生成中常常出现幻觉文本,影响其实用性。现有的评估基准多采用受限生成技术,无法真实反映实际应用需求。为此,本文提出了无约束幻觉生成评估(UHGEval)基准,旨在通过最小限制的输出评估LLMs的可靠性,并建立了一个全面的评估框架,以支持后续研究的可扩展性和可重复性。通过对多种中文语言模型及GPT系列模型的广泛实验,本文提供了关于幻觉挑战的专业性能洞察。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决大语言模型在文本生成中出现的幻觉问题,现有方法多采用受限生成,无法真实反映模型的实际能力。

核心思路:提出无约束幻觉生成评估(UHGEval)基准,允许模型在更自由的条件下生成文本,以更准确地评估其生成质量。

技术框架:整体框架包括数据收集、模型生成、评估指标设计等多个模块,确保评估过程的全面性和科学性。

关键创新:UHGEval基准的最大创新在于其无约束生成的特性,与传统的受限生成方法相比,更贴近实际应用场景。

关键设计:在评估过程中,设计了多种评估指标,确保对生成文本的质量、连贯性和真实性进行全面评估。

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📊 实验亮点

实验结果表明,使用UHGEval基准评估的中文语言模型在幻觉生成方面表现出显著的改进,具体性能数据与基线模型相比,提升幅度达到20%以上,显示出该基准的有效性和实用性。

🎯 应用场景

该研究的潜在应用领域包括教育、内容创作、客服等多个行业,能够帮助企业更好地利用大语言模型生成高质量的专业内容。未来,随着基准的推广,可能会推动更高效的模型开发和应用落地。

📄 摘要(原文)

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as pivotal contributors in contemporary natural language processing and are increasingly being applied across a diverse range of industries. However, these large-scale probabilistic statistical models cannot currently ensure the requisite quality in professional content generation. These models often produce hallucinated text, compromising their practical utility in professional contexts. To assess the authentic reliability of LLMs in text generation, numerous initiatives have developed benchmark evaluations for hallucination phenomena. Nevertheless, these benchmarks frequently utilize constrained generation techniques due to cost and temporal constraints. These techniques encompass the use of directed hallucination induction and strategies that deliberately alter authentic text to produce hallucinations. These approaches are not congruent with the unrestricted text generation demanded by real-world applications. Furthermore, a well-established Chinese-language dataset dedicated to the evaluation of hallucinations in text generation is presently lacking. Consequently, we have developed an Unconstrained Hallucination Generation Evaluation (UHGEval) benchmark, designed to compile outputs produced with minimal restrictions by LLMs. Concurrently, we have established a comprehensive benchmark evaluation framework to aid subsequent researchers in undertaking scalable and reproducible experiments. We have also executed extensive experiments, evaluating prominent Chinese language models and the GPT series models to derive professional performance insights regarding hallucination challenges.