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Open Domain Question Answering with Conflicting Contexts
Siyi Liu, Qiang Ning, Kishaloy Halder +8
Open domain question answering systems frequently rely on information retrieved from large collections of text (such as the Web) to answer questions. However, such collections of t…
Dancing in Chains: Reconciling Instruction Following and Faithfulness in Language Models
Zhengxuan Wu, Yuhao Zhang, Peng Qi +6
Modern language models (LMs) need to follow human instructions while being faithful; yet, they often fail to achieve both. Here, we provide concrete evidence of a trade-off between…
RAG-QA Arena: Evaluating Domain Robustness for Long-form Retrieval Augmented Question Answering
Rujun Han, Yuhao Zhang, Peng Qi +6
Question answering based on retrieval augmented generation (RAG-QA) is an important research topic in NLP and has a wide range of real-world applications. However, most existing da…
Towards a Holistic Evaluation of LLMs on Factual Knowledge Recall
Jiaqing Yuan, Lin Pan, Chung-Wei Hang +5
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance on a variety of NLP tasks, and are being rapidly adopted in a wide range of use cases. It is therefore of vital impor…
From Instructions to Constraints: Language Model Alignment with Automatic Constraint Verification
Fei Wang, Chao Shang, Sarthak Jain +6
User alignment is crucial for adapting general-purpose language models (LMs) to downstream tasks, but human annotations are often not available for all types of instructions, espec…