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Unintended Impacts of LLM Alignment on Global Representation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Before being deployed for user-facing applications, developers align Large Language Models (LLMs) to user preferences through a variety of procedures, such as Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). Current evaluations of these procedures focus on benchmarks of instruction following, reasoning, and truthfulness. However, human preferences are not universal, and aligning to specific preference sets may have unintended effects. We explore how alignment impacts performance along three axes of global representation: English dialects, multilingualism, and opinions from and about countries worldwide. Our results show that current alignment procedures create disparities between English dialects and global opinions. We find alignment improves capabilities in several languages. We conclude by discussing design decisions that led to these unintended impacts and recommendations for more equitable preference tuning. We make our code and data publicly available on Github.


Machine Translation for Nko: Tools, Corpora and Baseline Results

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Unfortunately, to over 40 million people across West African countries date, there isn't any usable machine translation including Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Gambia, (MT) system for Nko, in part due to the unavailability Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Liberia, and of large text corpora required by state-of-the-art Guinea-Bissau. Nko, which means'I say' in all neural machine translation (NMT) algorithms. Manding languages, was developed as both the Nko is a representative case study of the broader Manding literary standard language and a writing issues that interfere with the goal of universal machine system by Soulemana Kanté in 1949 for the translation. Thousands of languages still purpose of sustaining the strong oral tradition of don't have available or usable MT systems, mainly Manding languages (Niane, 1974; Conde, 2017; due to the unavailability of high-quality parallel Eberhard et al., 2023).