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On Exploring the Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs
Lo, Pei-Chi, Tsai, Yi-Hang, Lim, Ee-Peng, Hwang, San-Yih
This paper examines the capacity of LLMs to reason with knowledge graphs using their internal knowledge graph, i.e., the knowledge graph they learned during pre-training. Two research questions are formulated to investigate the accuracy of LLMs in recalling information from pre-training knowledge graphs and their ability to infer knowledge graph relations from context. To address these questions, we employ LLMs to perform four distinct knowledge graph reasoning tasks. Furthermore, we identify two types of hallucinations that may occur during knowledge reasoning with LLMs: content and ontology hallucination. Our experimental results demonstrate that LLMs can successfully tackle both simple and complex knowledge graph reasoning tasks from their own memory, as well as infer from input context.
Consistent Video-to-Video Transfer Using Synthetic Dataset
Cheng, Jiaxin, Xiao, Tianjun, He, Tong
We introduce a novel and efficient approach for text-based video-to-video editing that eliminates the need for resource-intensive per-video-per-model finetuning. At the core of our approach is a synthetic paired video dataset tailored for video-to-video transfer tasks. Inspired by Instruct Pix2Pix's image transfer via editing instruction, we adapt this paradigm to the video domain. Extending the Prompt-to-Prompt to videos, we efficiently generate paired samples, each with an input video and its edited counterpart. Alongside this, we introduce the Long Video Sampling Correction during sampling, ensuring consistent long videos across batches. Our method surpasses current methods like Tune-A-Video, heralding substantial progress in text-based video-to-video editing and suggesting exciting avenues for further exploration and deployment.
VMAF Re-implementation on PyTorch: Some Experimental Results
Aistov, Kirill, Koroteev, Maxim
Note, that these estimates in principle less susceptible to such preprocessing. The original VMAF have to be computed over the sample of images. Instead, the algorithm was implemented in C [3] and no effort is known assumption is made that the estimates can be computed over to us to re-implement it fully, i.e., including all its sub-metrics the patches ([4], section IV; [5]) using some ML framework. One of the reasons for that is VIF is computed on four scales by downsampling the image; the claimed non-differentiability of this metric. We propose four values per frame are used as features for final score an implementation of VMAF using PyTorch and analyze regression. The original version of VIF included the wavelet its differentiability with various methods. We also discuss transform, but the same authors released another version of potential problems related to the computation of this metric VIF in the pixel domain [6]. VMAF uses only the pixel domain in the end of the paper.
"Kelly is a Warm Person, Joseph is a Role Model": Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Reference Letters
Wan, Yixin, Pu, George, Sun, Jiao, Garimella, Aparna, Chang, Kai-Wei, Peng, Nanyun
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as an effective tool to assist individuals in writing various types of content, including professional documents such as recommendation letters. Though bringing convenience, this application also introduces unprecedented fairness concerns. Model-generated reference letters might be directly used by users in professional scenarios. If underlying biases exist in these model-constructed letters, using them without scrutinization could lead to direct societal harms, such as sabotaging application success rates for female applicants. In light of this pressing issue, it is imminent and necessary to comprehensively study fairness issues and associated harms in this real-world use case. In this paper, we critically examine gender biases in LLM-generated reference letters. Drawing inspiration from social science findings, we design evaluation methods to manifest biases through 2 dimensions: (1) biases in language style and (2) biases in lexical content. We further investigate the extent of bias propagation by analyzing the hallucination bias of models, a term that we define to be bias exacerbation in model-hallucinated contents. Through benchmarking evaluation on 2 popular LLMs- ChatGPT and Alpaca, we reveal significant gender biases in LLM-generated recommendation letters. Our findings not only warn against using LLMs for this application without scrutinization, but also illuminate the importance of thoroughly studying hidden biases and harms in LLM-generated professional documents.
Persona-Coded Poly-Encoder: Persona-Guided Multi-Stream Conversational Sentence Scoring
Liu, Junfeng, Symons, Christopher, Vatsavai, Ranga Raju
Recent advances in machine learning and deep learning have led to the widespread use of Conversational AI in many practical applications. However, it is still very challenging to leverage auxiliary information that can provide conversational context or personalized tuning to improve the quality of conversations. For example, there has only been limited research on using an individuals persona information to improve conversation quality, and even state-of-the-art conversational AI techniques are unable to effectively leverage signals from heterogeneous sources of auxiliary data, such as multi-modal interaction data, demographics, SDOH data, etc. In this paper, we present a novel Persona-Coded Poly-Encoder method that leverages persona information in a multi-stream encoding scheme to improve the quality of response generation for conversations. To show the efficacy of the proposed method, we evaluate our method on two different persona-based conversational datasets, and compared against two state-of-the-art methods. Our experimental results and analysis demonstrate that our method can improve conversation quality over the baseline method Poly-Encoder by 3.32% and 2.94% in terms of BLEU score and HR@1, respectively. More significantly, our method offers a path to better utilization of multi-modal data in conversational tasks. Lastly, our study outlines several challenges and future research directions for advancing personalized conversational AI technology.
Cumulative Reasoning with Large Language Models
Zhang, Yifan, Yang, Jingqin, Yuan, Yang, Yao, Andrew Chi-Chih
While language models are powerful and versatile, they often fail to address highly complex problems. This is because solving complex problems requires deliberate thinking, which has been only minimally guided during training. In this paper, we propose a new method called Cumulative Reasoning (CR), which employs language models in a cumulative and iterative manner to emulate human thought processes. By decomposing tasks into smaller components, CR streamlines the problem-solving process, rendering it both more manageable and effective. For logical inference tasks, CR consistently outperforms existing methods with an improvement up to 9.3%, and achieves an accuracy of 98.04% on the curated FOLIO wiki dataset. In the context of the Game of 24, CR achieves an accuracy of 98%, which signifies a substantial enhancement of 24% over the previous state-of-the-art method. Finally, on the MATH dataset, we establish new state-of-the-art results with 58.0% overall accuracy, surpassing the previous best approach by a margin of 4.2%, and achieving 43% relative improvement on the hardest level 5 problems (22.4% to 32.1%). Additionally, we expand the concept of Cumulative Reasoning to incorporate a Python code environment, deliberately omitting external aids such as retrieval and web browsing and focusing solely on the LLM's intrinsic reasoning capabilities within a Python code environment. Our experiments in this setting yielded impressive results, with an overall accuracy of 72.2% on the MATH dataset, significantly outperforming the PAL method with 38.8% relative improvement. Code is available at https://github.com/iiis-ai/cumulative-reasoning.
Pointwise Mutual Information Based Metric and Decoding Strategy for Faithful Generation in Document Grounded Dialogs
Nandwani, Yatin, Kumar, Vineet, Raghu, Dinesh, Joshi, Sachindra, Lastras, Luis A.
A major concern in using deep learning based generative models for document-grounded dialogs is the potential generation of responses that are not \textit{faithful} to the underlying document. Existing automated metrics used for evaluating the faithfulness of response with respect to the grounding document measure the degree of similarity between the generated response and the document's content. However, these automated metrics are far from being well aligned with human judgments. Therefore, to improve the measurement of faithfulness, we propose a new metric that utilizes (Conditional) Point-wise Mutual Information (PMI) between the generated response and the source document, conditioned on the dialogue. PMI quantifies the extent to which the document influences the generated response -- with a higher PMI indicating a more faithful response. We build upon this idea to create a new decoding technique that incorporates PMI into the response generation process to predict more faithful responses. Our experiments on the BEGIN benchmark demonstrate an improved correlation of our metric with human evaluation. We also show that our decoding technique is effective in generating more faithful responses when compared to standard decoding techniques on a set of publicly available document-grounded dialog datasets.
Brazilian city enacts ordinance written completely by ChatGPT
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. City lawmakers in Brazil have enacted what appears to be the nation's first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence -- even if they didn't know it at the time. The experimental ordinance was passed in October in the southern city of Porto Alegre and city councilman Ramiro Rosรกrio revealed this week that it was written by a chatbot, sparking objections and raising questions about the role of artificial intelligence in public policy. Rosรกrio told The Associated Press that he asked OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to craft a proposal to prevent the city from charging taxpayers to replace water consumption meters if they are stolen.
How OpenAI's ChatGPT has changed the world in just a year
Over the course of two months from its debut in November 2022, ChatGPT exploded in popularity, from niche online curio to 100 million monthly active users -- the fastest user base growth in the history of the Internet. In less than a year, it has earned the backing of Silicon Valley's biggest firms, and been shoehorned into myriad applications from academia and the arts to marketing, medicine, gaming and government. In short ChatGPT is just about everywhere. Few industries have remained untouched by the viral adoption of the generative AI's tools. On the first anniversary of its release, let's take a look back on the year of ChatGPT that brought us here.
The Morning After: Google plans to delete your old inactive accounts starting tomorrow
Starting December 1, 2023 (that's tomorrow), Google will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for at least two years. The company says it's doing so for privacy reasons: "If an account hasn't been used for an extended period of time, it is more likely to be compromised," Google noted in May 2023. "This is because forgotten or unattended accounts often rely on old or re-used passwords that may have been compromised." Google will warn users before deletion via emails sent to the inactive account and another email, provided one has been set up. Even if you don't need the account, it might be best to login and check you're not going to miss anything -- there might be important information somewhere in msmith.teamnaruto@gmail.com.