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Language models have shown promise in various tasks but can be affected by undesired data during training, fine-tuning, or alignment. For example, if some unsafe conversations are wrongly annotated as safe ones, the model fine-tuned on these samples may be harmful. Therefore, the correctness of annotations, i.e., the credibility of the dataset, is important. This study focuses on the credibility of real-world datasets, including the popular benchmarks Jigsaw Civil Comments, Anthropic Harmless & Red Team, PKU BeaverTails & SafeRLHF, that can be used for training a harmless language model. Given the cost and difficulty of cleaning these datasets by humans, we introduce a systematic framework for evaluating the credibility of datasets, identifying label errors, and evaluating the influence of noisy labels in the curated language data, specifically focusing on unsafe comments and conversation classification. With the framework, we find and fix an average of 6.16% label errors in 11 datasets constructed from the above benchmarks. The data credibility and downstream learning performance can be remarkably improved by directly fixing label errors, indicating the significance of cleaning existing real-world datasets.
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Compositional Data Augmentation for Abstractive Conversation Summarization
Recent abstractive conversation summarization systems generally rely on large-scale datasets with annotated summaries. However, collecting and annotating these conversations can be a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. To address this issue, in this work, we present a sub-structure level compositional data augmentation method, COMPO, for generating diverse and high-quality pairs of conversations and summaries. Specifically, COMPO first extracts conversation structures like topic splits and action triples as basic units. Then we organize these semantically meaningful conversation snippets compositionally to create new training instances. Additionally, we explore noise-tolerant settings in both self-training and joint-training paradigms to make the most of these augmented samples. Our experiments on benchmark datasets, SAMSum and DialogSum, show that COMPO substantially outperforms prior baseline methods by achieving a nearly 10% increase of ROUGE scores with limited data.
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- PAR ID:
- 10467072
- Publisher / Repository:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Date Published:
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1471 to 1488
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- abstractive conversation summarization, sub-structure level compositional data augmentation, conversation structure, conversation snippets, self-training and joint-training paradigms, conversational AI
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Toronto, Canada
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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