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Halo: Estimation and Reduction of Hallucinations in Open-Source Weak Large Language Models

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arxiv 2308.11764 v4 pith:IHVSMAQ6 submitted 2023-08-22 cs.CL cs.AI

classification cs.CLcs.AI
keywords hallucinationsllmslanguageopen-sourceapplicationslargemodelsreduction
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP). Although convenient for research and practical applications, open-source LLMs with fewer parameters often suffer from severe hallucinations compared to their larger counterparts. This paper focuses on measuring and reducing hallucinations in BLOOM 7B, a representative of such weaker open-source LLMs that are publicly available for research and commercial applications. We introduce HaloCheck, a lightweight BlackBox knowledge-free framework designed to quantify the severity of hallucinations in LLMs. Additionally, we explore techniques like knowledge injection and teacher-student approaches to alleviate hallucinations in low-parameter LLMs. Our experiments effectively demonstrate the reduction of hallucinations in challenging domains for these LLMs.

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