用强化学习让生成的问答题更难,适合文化遗产领域评估。
Increasing the Difficulty of Automatically Generated Questions via Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Preference
- 用模型表现反推难度,通过PPO优化生成更难问题。
- 人工评估显示生成问题难度显著提升,正确率下降30%以上。
- 开源代码和适配器,方便研究者复现与迁移使用。
随着文化遗产领域日益采用检索增强生成(RAG)技术以提供个性化搜索体验并实现与馆藏数据的对话,对专业评估数据集的需求持续增长。尽管端到端系统测试至关重要,但对各组件的独立评估同样关键。本文聚焦最终的问答任务,该任务适用于机器阅读理解(MRC)。现有MRC数据集虽覆盖通用领域,却缺乏文化遗产领域的特定性。然而,人工构建此类数据集对大多数机构而言成本过高。本文提出一种基于人类反馈强化学习(RLHF)与合成偏好数据的低成本方法,用于生成更具挑战性的领域专用MRC数据集。该方法利用现有SQuAD子集上问答模型的表现构建难度度量,假设回答正确率越低的问题越难。研究贡献包括:(1) 基于PPO与合成数据提升问题难度的方法;(2) 实证证据,含人工评估结果;(3) 深入的错误分析与涌现现象研究;(4) 开源代码库及三个llama-2-chat适配器,支持可复现性与适应性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As the cultural heritage sector increasingly adopts technologies like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide more personalised search experiences and enable conversations with collections data, the demand for specialised evaluation datasets has grown. While end-to-end system testing is essential, it's equally important to assess individual components. We target the final, answering task, which is well-suited to Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC). Although existing MRC datasets address general domains, they lack the specificity needed for cultural heritage information. Unfortunately, the manual creation of such datasets is prohibitively expensive for most heritage institutions. This paper presents a cost-effective approach for generating domain-specific MRC datasets with increased difficulty using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) from synthetic preference data. Our method leverages the performance of existing question-answering models on a subset of SQuAD to create a difficulty metric, assuming that more challenging questions are answered correctly less frequently. This research contributes: (1) A methodology for increasing question difficulty using PPO and synthetic data; (2) Empirical evidence of the method's effectiveness, including human evaluation; (3) An in-depth error analysis and study of emergent phenomena; and (4) An open-source codebase and set of three llama-2-chat adapters for reproducibility and adaptation.
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