Towards Truthful Multilingual Large Language Models: Benchmarking and Alignment Strategies
<|reference_start|>Towards Truthful Multilingual Large Language Models: Benchmarking and Alignment Strategies: In the era of large language models (LLMs), building multilingual large language models (MLLMs) that can serve users worldwide holds great significance. However, existing research seldom focuses on the truthfulness of MLLMs. Meanwhile, contemporary multilingual aligning technologies struggle to balance massive languages and often exhibit serious truthfulness gaps across different languages, especially those that differ greatly from English. In our work, we construct a benchmark for truthfulness evaluation in multilingual scenarios and explore the ways to align facts across languages to enhance the truthfulness of MLLMs. Furthermore, we propose Fact-aware Multilingual Selective Synergy (FaMSS) to optimize the data allocation across a large number of languages and different data types. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach can effectively reduce the multilingual representation disparity and enhance the multilingual capabilities of LLMs.<|reference_end|>
@article{liu2024towards,
    title={Towards Truthful Multilingual Large Language Models: Benchmarking and
  Alignment Strategies},
    author={Weihao Liu, Ning Wu, Wenbiao Ding, Shining Liang, Ming Gong, Dongmei
  Zhang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14434},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.14434},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}