{"id":24098,"date":"2023-10-25T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/researchers-in-china-developed-a-hallucination-correction-engine-for-ai-models\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:42:06","slug":"researchers-in-china-developed-a-hallucination-correction-engine-for-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/researchers-in-china-developed-a-hallucination-correction-engine-for-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers in China developed a hallucination correction engine for AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-v-3d3be88a=\"\">\n<p>A team of scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and Tencent\u2019s YouTu Lab have developed a tool to combat \u201challucination\u201d by artificial intelligence (AI) models.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hallucination is the tendency for an AI model to generate outputs with a high level of confidence that don\u2019t appear based on information present in its training data. This problem permeates large language model (LLM) research, and its effects can be seen in models such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and Anthropic\u2019s Claude. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"[short] Woodpecker: Hallucination Correction for Multimodal Large Language Models\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gz6v2eOSZTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The USTC\/Tencent team developed a tool called \u201cWoodpecker\u201d that they claim is capable of correcting hallucinations in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This subset of AI involves models such as GPT-4 (especially its visual variant, GPT-4V) and other systems that roll vision and\/or other processing into the generative AI modality alongside text-based language modeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the team\u2019s preprint research paper, Woodpecker uses three separate AI models, apart from the MLLM being corrected for hallucinations, to perform hallucination correction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These include GPT-3.5 turbo, Grounding DINO and BLIP-2-FlanT5. Together, these models work as evaluators to identify hallucinations and instruct the model being corrected to regenerate its output in accordance with its data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In each of the above examples, an LLM hallucinates an incorrect answer (green background) to prompting (blue background). The corrected Woodpecker responses are shown with a red background. Source: Yin, et. al., 2023<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To correct hallucinations, the AI models powering Woodpecker use a five-stage process that involves \u201ckey concept extraction, question formulation, visual knowledge validation, visual claim generation, and hallucination correction.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Humans and AI often prefer sycophantic chatbot answers to the truth \u2014 Study<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers claim these techniques provide additional transparency and \u201ca\u00a030.66%\/24.33% improvement in accuracy over the baseline MiniGPT-4\/mPLUG-Owl.\u201d They evaluated numerous \u201coff the shelf\u201d MLLMs using their method and concluded that Woodpecker could be \u201ceasily integrated into other MLLMs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"consulting_newsletter\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China and Tencent\u2019s YouTu Lab have developed a tool to combat \u201challucination\u201d by artificial intelligence (AI) models.\u00a0 Hallucination is the tendency for an AI model to generate outputs with a high level of confidence that don\u2019t appear based on information present in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Researchers in China developed a hallucination correction engine for AI models | NFT &amp; 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