Both Matter: Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language Models without Compromising the General Intelligence
<|reference_start|>Both Matter: Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language Models without Compromising the General Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence (EI), consisting of emotion perception, emotion cognition and emotion expression, plays the critical roles in improving user interaction experience for the current large language model (LLM) based conversational general AI assistants. Previous works mainly focus on raising the emotion perception ability of them via naive fine-tuning on EI-related classification or regression tasks. However, this leads to the incomplete enhancement of EI and catastrophic forgetting of the general intelligence (GI). To this end, we first introduce \textsc{EiBench}, a large-scale collection of EI-related tasks in the text-to-text formation with task instructions that covers all three aspects of EI, which lays a solid foundation for the comprehensive EI enhancement of LLMs. Then a novel \underline{\textbf{Mo}}dular \underline{\textbf{E}}motional \underline{\textbf{I}}ntelligence enhancement method (\textbf{MoEI}), consisting of Modular Parameter Expansion and intra-inter modulation, is proposed to comprehensively enhance the EI of LLMs without compromise their GI. Extensive experiments on two representative LLM-based assistants, Flan-T5 and LLaMA-2-Chat, demonstrate the effectiveness of MoEI to improving EI while maintain GI.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhao2024both,
    title={Both Matter: Enhancing the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language
  Models without Compromising the General Intelligence},
    author={Weixiang Zhao, Zhuojun Li, Shilong Wang, Yang Wang, Yulin Hu, Yanyan
  Zhao, Chen Wei, Bing Qin},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10073},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.10073},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}