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Self-Alignment: Improving Alignment of Cultural Values in LLMs via In-Context Learning

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arxiv 2408.16482 v2 pith:NL4BN4FI submitted 2024-08-29 cs.CL

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keywords culturalvaluesalignmentllmsimproveimprovingin-contextlearning
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Improving the alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) with respect to the cultural values that they encode has become an increasingly important topic. In this work, we study whether we can exploit existing knowledge about cultural values at inference time to adjust model responses to cultural value probes. We present a simple and inexpensive method that uses a combination of in-context learning (ICL) and human survey data, and show that we can improve the alignment to cultural values across 5 models that include both English-centric and multilingual LLMs. Importantly, we show that our method could prove useful in test languages other than English and can improve alignment to the cultural values that correspond to a range of culturally diverse countries.

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