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LLM See, LLM Do: Leveraging Active Inheritance to Target Non-Differentiable Objectives

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Shimabucoro, Luísa, Ruder, Sebastian, Kreutzer, Julia, Fadaee, Marzieh, Hooker, Sara·2024·Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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The widespread adoption of synthetic data raises new questions about how models generating the data can influence other large language models (LLMs).To start, our work exhaustively characterizes the impact of passive inheritance of model properties by systematically studying how the source of synthetic data shapes models' internal biases, calibration and preferences, and their generations' textual attributes, providing one of the most comprehensive studies to-date.We find that models are surprisingly sensitive towards certain attributes even when the synthetic data prompts appear "neutral", which invites the question "can we explicitly steer the generated data towards desired properties?"We demonstrate how such active inheritance can guide the generation profiles of models towards desirable non-differentiable attributes in both directions, e.g.increasing lexical diversity or reducing toxicity.Overall, our study broadens the understanding of the implicit biases inherited by LLMs and explores how we can leverage them to positive effect.

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Authors
Shimabucoro, L., Ruder, S., Kreutzer, J., Fadaee, M., & Hooker, S.
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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2024
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9243-9267
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  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
synthetic data, large language models, model bias, calibration, lexical diversity, toxicity reduction

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