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Enhancing Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Causal Attribution Model for Precision Fine-Tuning

Hengrui Cai, Shengjie Liu, Rui Song · Dec 30, 2023 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning. Despite LLMs' proficiency in diverse tasks, their reasoning processes often remain black box, and thus restrict targeted enhancement. We propose a novel causal attribution model that utilizes "do-operators" for constructing interventional scenarios, allowing us to quantify the contribution of different components in LLMs's causal reasoning process systematically. By assessing the proposed attribution scores through causal discovery tasks across various domains, we demonstrate that LLMs' effectiveness in causal discovery heavily relies on provided context and domain-specific knowledge but can also utilize numerical data with limited calculations in correlation, not causation. This motivates the proposed fine-tuned LLM for pairwise causal discovery, effectively and correctly leveraging both knowledge and numerical information.

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Main weakness

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Trust level

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Usefulness score

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Human Feedback Signal

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Evaluation Signal

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What We Could Verify

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Human Feedback Types

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Pairwise Preference

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"This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning."

Evaluation Modes

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"This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning."

Quality Controls

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"This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning."

Benchmarks / Datasets

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"This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning."

Reported Metrics

strong

Precision

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"This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: Yes
  • Feedback types: Pairwise Preference
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Unit of annotation: Pairwise
  • Expertise required: General

Evaluation Details

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  • Evidence quality: Moderate
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Protocol And Measurement Signals

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Reported Metrics

precision

Research Brief

Metadata summary

This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning.

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Key Takeaways

  • This paper introduces a causal attribution model to enhance the interpretability of large language models (LLMs) and improve their causal reasoning abilities via precise fine-tuning.
  • Despite LLMs' proficiency in diverse tasks, their reasoning processes often remain black box, and thus restrict targeted enhancement.
  • We propose a novel causal attribution model that utilizes "do-operators" for constructing interventional scenarios, allowing us to quantify the contribution of different components in LLMs's causal reasoning process systematically.

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Caveats

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • We propose a novel causal attribution model that utilizes "do-operators" for constructing interventional scenarios, allowing us to quantify the contribution of different components in LLMs's causal reasoning process systematically.
  • By assessing the proposed attribution scores through causal discovery tasks across various domains, we demonstrate that LLMs' effectiveness in causal discovery heavily relies on provided context and domain-specific knowledge but can also…

Researcher Checklist

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  • Gap: Evaluation mode is explicit

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  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

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  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

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  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

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