In plain words: After a language model writes out its reasoning steps, this framework checks each step against outside knowledge and rewrites the wrong ones before answering. It answered open-domain questions more accurately than the usual approach of writing out the reasoning once and trusting it.
Abstract
As large language models (LLMs) have become the norm in NLP, demonstrating good performance in generation and reasoning tasks, one of its most fatal disadvantages is the lack of factual correctness. Generating unfactual texts not only leads to lower performances but also degrades the trust and validity of their applications. Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting improves trust and model performance on complex reasoning tasks by generating interpretable reasoning chains, but still suffers from factuality concerns in knowledge-intensive tasks. In this paper, we propose the Verify-and-Edit framework for CoT prompting, which seeks to increase prediction factuality by post-editing reasoning chains according to external knowledge. Building on top of GPT-3, our framework lead to accuracy improvements in multiple open-domain question-answering tasks.
Ruochen Zhao, Xingxuan Li, Shafiq Joty, Chengwei Qin, Lidong Bing
arXiv:2305.03268 · cs.CL · submitted May 5, 2023
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