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给模糊提问加背景,让大模型评估更公平可靠

Contextualized Evaluations: Judging Language Model Responses to Underspecified Queries

  • 用合成上下文重构模糊问题的背景进行评估
  • 上下文能改变模型排名,使评价更合理
  • 揭示模型默认偏好西方文化,对上下文敏感度不一

语言模型用户常提出缺乏明确限定的查询,如'我该读哪本书?'或'抗生素如何对抗细菌?',其回答质量依赖于用户身份、意图和知识水平等隐含上下文。这使得评价结果易受评判者主观影响,成为无解难题。为此,我们提出上下文化评估协议:在评估时人工构建并提供查询的上下文。实验发现,加入上下文可1)改变评估结论,甚至反转模型对排名;2)减少评价者对文风等表面特征的依赖;3)揭示模型行为在不同上下文中的差异。特别地,模型默认输出存在对WEIRD(西方、受教育、工业化、富裕、民主)群体的偏见,且模型对不同上下文的响应敏感度不均,即便提示中已明确给出。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Language model users often issue queries that lack specification, where the context under which a query was issued -- such as the user's identity, the query's intent, and the criteria for a response to be useful -- is not explicit. For instance, a good response to a subjective query like "What book should I read next?" would depend on the user's preferences, and a good response to an open-ended query like "How do antibiotics work against bacteria?" would depend on the user's expertise. This makes evaluation of responses to such queries an ill-posed task, as evaluators may make arbitrary judgments about the response quality. To remedy this, we present contextualized evaluations, a protocol that synthetically constructs context surrounding an underspecified query and provides it during evaluation. We find that the presence of context can 1) alter conclusions drawn from evaluation, even flipping benchmark rankings between model pairs, 2) nudge evaluators to make fewer judgments based on surface-level criteria, like style, and 3) provide new insights about model behavior across diverse contexts. Specifically, our procedure suggests a potential bias towards WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) contexts in models' "default" responses and we find that models are not equally sensitive to following different contexts, even when they are provided in prompts.

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