arXiv:2410.15393cs.CL2024-10ACL被引 32

提出无需标签的校准方法,让大模型评语更公平

CalibraEval: Calibrating Prediction Distribution to Mitigate Selection Bias in LLMs-as-Judges

  • 将去偏问题转化为预测分布优化,不依赖标签
  • 在多个基准上显著降低位置偏倚,提升评估一致性
  • 适合需要公正评测的AI生成质量评估场景

将大语言模型用作自动评估工具(即LLMs-as-Judges)在自然语言生成质量评估中展现出巨大潜力,但其在成对比较中常出现选择偏倚:当选项位置或ID标记互换时,判断结果不一致,影响评估有效性与公平性。为此,本文提出CalibraEval,一种无标签的推理阶段去偏方法。该方法将去偏建模为优化任务,旨在调整观测到的预测分布以匹配无偏分布。为此,设计了非参数保序算法(NOA),利用模型预测分布间的部分序关系,避免了显式标签和精确函数建模的需要。在多个代表性基准上的实证评估表明,CalibraEval能有效缓解选择偏倚,性能优于现有去偏方法。本工作推动构建更鲁棒、无偏的自动化评估框架,为提升AI评估可靠性奠定基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The use of large language models (LLMs) as automated evaluation tools to assess the quality of generated natural language, known as LLMs-as-Judges, has demonstrated promising capabilities and is rapidly gaining widespread attention. However, when applied to pairwise comparisons of candidate responses, LLM-based evaluators often exhibit selection bias. Specifically, their judgments may become inconsistent when the option positions or ID tokens are swapped, compromising the effectiveness and fairness of the evaluation result. To address this challenge, we introduce CalibraEval, a novel label-free method for mitigating selection bias during inference. Specifically, CalibraEval reformulates debiasing as an optimization task aimed at adjusting observed prediction distributions to align with unbiased prediction distributions. To solve this optimization problem, we propose a non-parametric order-preserving algorithm (NOA). This algorithm leverages the partial order relationships between model prediction distributions, thereby eliminating the need for explicit labels and precise mathematical function modeling.Empirical evaluations of LLMs in multiple representative benchmarks demonstrate that CalibraEval effectively mitigates selection bias and improves performance compared to existing debiasing methods. This work marks a step toward building more robust and unbiased automated evaluation frameworks, paving the way for improved reliability in AI-driven assessments

大模型评估去偏自动化评测

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