April 9, 2024, 4:50 a.m. | Ava Spataru, Eric Hambro, Elena Voita, Nicola Cancedda

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arXiv:2404.05411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this work, we explicitly show that modern LLMs tend to generate correct facts first, then "drift away" and generate incorrect facts later: this was occasionally observed but never properly measured. We develop a semantic drift score that measures the degree of separation between correct and incorrect facts in generated texts and confirm our hypothesis when generating Wikipedia-style biographies. This correct-then-incorrect generation pattern suggests that factual accuracy can be improved by knowing when to stop …

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