Don’t just say “I don’t know”! Self-aligning Large Language Models for responding to unknown questions with explanations

• Main Authors: DENG, Yang, ZHAO, Yong, LI, Moxin, NG, See-Kiong, CHUA, Tat-Seng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Large Language Models; LLMs; Unknown question response; Self-Align method; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9614; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10614/viewcontent/2402.15062v2.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite the remarkable abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) to answer questions, they often display a considerable level of overconfidence even when the question does not have a definitive answer. To avoid providing hallucinated answers to these unknown questions, existing studies typically inv...