指令微调让多语言模型信心虚高,准确率却没提升,需用标签平滑改善。
Investigating the Multilingual Calibration Effects of Language Model Instruction-Tuning
- 在高资源语言上微调,低资源语言的模型置信度显著上升。
- 微调后准确率提升微弱,导致模型过度自信,出现校准偏差。
- 标签平滑可有效改善多语言校准,无需低资源数据支持。
确保深度学习模型在预测不确定性上的良好校准对于其可信度和可靠性至关重要,然而尽管基础模型研究不断进步,大语言模型(LLMs)与其校准之间的关系仍是开放性问题。本文研究了多语言场景下LLM校准的关键空白,旨在理解数据稀缺如何导致不同校准效应,以及常用技术在此类设置中的适用性。我们在两个多语言基准上进行了分析,分别覆盖29种和42种语言,发现即使在低资源语言中,仅在高资源语言的SFT数据集上进行指令微调,模型置信度也会显著提升。然而,准确率提升微乎其微或完全不存在,导致模型严重失校准,揭示了标准SFT在多语言场景下的重大缺陷。此外,我们观察到使用标签平滑可有效缓解该问题,且无需低资源SFT数据,能维持所有语言的良好校准。总体而言,本研究强调了在训练和微调阶段考虑多语言因素的重要性,以提升下游应用中的可靠性和公平性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ensuring that deep learning models are well-calibrated in terms of their predictive uncertainty is essential in maintaining their trustworthiness and reliability, yet despite increasing advances in foundation model research, the relationship between such large language models (LLMs) and their calibration remains an open area of research. In this work, we look at a critical gap in the calibration of LLMs within multilingual settings, in an attempt to better understand how the data scarcity can potentially lead to different calibration effects and how commonly used techniques can apply in these settings. Our analysis on two multilingual benchmarks, over 29 and 42 languages respectively, reveals that even in low-resource languages, model confidence can increase significantly after instruction-tuning on high-resource language SFT datasets. However, improvements in accuracy are marginal or non-existent, resulting in mis-calibration, highlighting a critical shortcoming of standard SFT for multilingual languages. Furthermore, we observe that the use of label smoothing to be a reasonable method alleviate this concern, again without any need for low-resource SFT data, maintaining better calibration across all languages. Overall, this highlights the importance of multilingual considerations for both training and tuning LLMs in order to improve their reliability and fairness in downstream use.
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