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Banishing LLM Hallucinations Requires Rethinking Generalization

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  • Haebom

Author

Johnny Li, Saksham Consul, Eda Zhou, James Wong, Naila Farooqui, Yuxin Ye, Nithyashree Manohar, Zhuxiaona Wei, Tian Wu, Ben Echols, Sharon Zhou, Gregory Diamos

Outline

This paper experimentally demonstrates that the conventional understanding of hallucinations in large-scale language models (LLMs)—a balancing issue between creativity and realism—is in fact inaccurate. Through experiments on memorizing large random digit datasets and theoretical models, we demonstrate that hallucinations in LLMs occur when the training loss exceeds a certain threshold and are a common phenomenon in internet-scale data training. We highlight the limitations of existing hallucination mitigation techniques (which utilize external knowledge sources) and propose a novel hallucination-reduction model, Lamini-1, which dynamically searches millions of memory experts.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways: Contributed to improving the reliability of LLM by revealing inaccuracies in the existing understanding of the causes of hallucinations in LLM and proposing a new hallucination-eliminating model, Lamini-1. Presenting a novel approach to the problem of LLM hallucinations.
Limitations: Further validation of the Lamini-1 model's practical performance and scalability is needed. Further research is needed to determine whether it is effective for all types of hallucinations. Evaluation of Lamini-1's computational cost and memory requirements is also needed.
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