Enhancing LLM Reliability: The Lookback Lens Approach to Hallucination Detection

Enhancing LLM Reliability: The Lookback Lens Approach to Hallucination Detection

Enhancing LLM Reliability: The Lookback Lens Approach to Hallucination Detection

Practical Solutions and Value

Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are powerful in text generation but can produce inaccurate or irrelevant content, termed “hallucinations.” These errors undermine the reliability of LLMs in critical applications.

Prior work focused on detecting and mitigating hallucinations, but existing methods do not specifically address contextual hallucinations, where the provided context is key.

The Lookback Lens, a novel approach, leverages attention maps of LLMs to detect and mitigate hallucinations. It introduces a simple yet effective hallucination detection model based on the ratio of attention weights on the context versus the newly generated tokens, termed the ‘lookback ratio.’

The Lookback Lens is validated through experiments on summarization and question-answering tasks, demonstrating its robustness and generalizability. It can be transferred across different models and tasks without retraining.

A classifier-guided decoding strategy further mitigates hallucinations during text generation, reducing hallucinations by 9.6% in the XSum summarization task.

This approach represents a promising step toward more accurate and reliable LLM-generated content.

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