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Published at October 18Enhancing Large Language Models' Situated Faithfulness to External Contexts
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Released Date: October 18, 2024
Authors: Yukun Huang1, Sanxing Chen1, Hongyi Cai1, Bhuwan Dhingra1
Aff.: 1Duke University

| GPT-4o-m | RedditQA | FreshQA | ClashEval | TriviaQA | PopQA | NaturalQA | Total | ||||||||||||
| Method | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | OV |
| Closed-book | 80.7 | 53.0 | 20.0 | 81.7 | 56.7 | 62.0 | 59.0 | ||||||||||||
| DIA | 96.0 | 12.5 | 54.3 | 96.3 | 2.3 | 49.3 | 85.3 | 12.0 | 48.7 | 96.0 | 12.3 | 54.2 | 97.7 | 11.0 | 54.4 | 88.7 | 10.3 | 49.5 | 51.7 |
| TACS (LR) | 93.8 | 16.5 | 55.2 | 86.3 | 4.6 | 45.5 | 76.3 | 14.3 | 45.3 | 92.3 | 16.0 | 54.2 | 76.3 | 14.3 | 45.3 | 86.0 | 15.7 | 50.9 | 49.4 |
| Rule-based Confidence Reasoning (Evaluation-based) | |||||||||||||||||||
| ContextEval | 90.3 | 53.4 | 71.9 | 77.3 | 35.7 | 56.5 | 86.7 | 11.7 | 49.2 | 92.3 | 47.4 | 69.9 | 91.0 | 53.0 | \ul72.0 | 86.6 | 36.3 | 61.5 | 63.5 |
| InternalEval | 88.6 | 77.2 | 82.9 | 83.3 | 30.0 | 56.7 | 67.0 | 17.0 | 42.0 | 88.7 | 71.7 | 80.2 | 78.0 | 48.3 | 63.2 | 72.3 | 57.3 | 64.8 | 65.0 |
| Rule-based Confidence Reasoning (Confidence-based) | |||||||||||||||||||
| TPC | 92.0 | 25.6 | 58.8 | 88.7 | 22.7 | 55.7 | 82.7 | 20.3 | \ul51.5 | 94.7 | 39.7 | 67.2 | 95.0 | 17.7 | 56.4 | 87.0 | 34.3 | 60.7 | 58.4 |
| ContextConf | 93.8 | 13.1 | 53.5 | 82.3 | 16.3 | 49.3 | 80.0 | 16.7 | 48.4 | 93.0 | 19.7 | 56.4 | 94.0 | 14.6 | 54.2 | 85.0 | 30.6 | 57.8 | 53.2 |
| InternalConf | 82.3 | 79.5 | 80.9 | 83.6 | 38.3 | \ul61.0 | 64.6 | 20.6 | 42.6 | 89.6 | 77.0 | 83.3 | 84.0 | 50.0 | 67.0 | 84.0 | 49.3 | 66.7 | 66.9 |
| Self-guided Confidence Reasoning | |||||||||||||||||||
| ImplicitSCR | 91.5 | 79.0 | 85.3 | 93.7 | 26.3 | 60.0 | 89.3 | 25.3 | 57.3 | 96.3 | 48.0 | 72.2 | 97.0 | 48.3 | 72.7 | 82.0 | 50.0 | \ul66.0 | \ul68.9 |
| ExplicitSCR | 92.0 | 73.9 | \ul83.0 | 82.7 | 47.0 | 64.9 | 82.0 | 17.0 | 49.5 | 92.3 | 71.3 | \ul81.8 | 93.0 | 51.0 | \ul72.0 | 80.3 | 51.0 | 65.7 | 69.5 |
| GPT-4o | RedditQA | FreshQA | ClashEval | TriviaQA | PopQA | NaturalQA | Total | ||||||||||||
| Method | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | TR | FA | OV | OV |
| Closed-book | 84.1 | 63.3 | 39.0 | 90.7 | 81.0 | 66.7 | 70.8 | ||||||||||||
| DIA | 94.9 | 12.5 | 53.7 | 93.7 | 5.7 | 49.7 | 84.7 | 24.7 | 54.7 | 96.0 | 23.3 | 59.7 | 97.3 | 12.3 | 54.8 | 88.7 | 12.7 | 50.7 | 53.9 |
| TACS (LR) | 96.0 | 17.0 | 56.5 | 81.3 | 9.3 | 45.3 | 82.7 | 25.7 | 54.2 | 96.0 | 26.7 | 61.4 | 96.7 | 21.3 | 59.0 | 88.3 | 20.7 | 54.5 | 55.1 |
| Rule-based Confidence Reasoning (Evaluation Based) | |||||||||||||||||||
| ContextEval | 92.6 | 66.5 | 79.6 | 87.7 | 44.0 | 65.9 | 81.3 | 23.0 | 52.2 | 94.3 | 71.3 | 82.8 | 96.7 | 73.3 | 85.0 | 86.7 | 51.3 | 69.0 | 72.4 |
| InternalEval | 87.5 | 81.3 | 84.4 | 81.3 | 40.0 | 60.7 | 76.7 | 30.0 | 53.4 | 95.0 | 85.7 | \ul90.4 | 88.7 | 70.3 | 79.5 | 74.3 | 60.3 | 67.3 | 72.6 |
| Rule-based Confidence Reasoning (Confidence Based) | |||||||||||||||||||
| TPC | 94.3 | 71.6 | 83.0 | 87.0 | 39.7 | 63.4 | 77.0 | 39.0 | 58.0 | 94.3 | 75.3 | 84.8 | 96.7 | 66.7 | 81.7 | 84.0 | 50.3 | 67.2 | 73.0 |
| ContextConf | 93.8 | 60.2 | 77.0 | 78.7 | 37.0 | 57.9 | 70.7 | 30.0 | 50.4 | 94.6 | 43.0 | 68.8 | 95.7 | 26.3 | 61.0 | 78.7 | 36.7 | 57.7 | 62.1 |
| InternalConf | 89.8 | 78.9 | 84.4 | 83.7 | 50.0 | 66.9 | 61.6 | 40.6 | 51.1 | 93.0 | 88.0 | 90.5 | 88.7 | 78.7 | 83.7 | 78.6 | 59.6 | 69.1 | 74.3 |
| Self-guided Confidence Reasoning | |||||||||||||||||||
| ImplicitSCR | 92.6 | 75.6 | 84.1 | 82.0 | 54.0 | \ul68.0 | 86.0 | 44.3 | 65.2 | 94.7 | 85.7 | 90.2 | 96.0 | 76.7 | 86.4 | 83.3 | 66.7 | 75.0 | 78.1 |
| EplicitSCR | 93.8 | 77.2 | 85.5 | 85.3 | 55.3 | 70.3 | 83.0 | 33.3 | 58.2 | 94.7 | 84.3 | 89.5 | 92.7 | 78.0 | \ul85.4 | 78.7 | 60.0 | \ul69.4 | \ul76.4 |