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Hypothesis-only Biases in Large Language Model-Elicited Natural Language Inference

Computation and Language 2024-10-14 v1

Abstract

We test whether replacing crowdsource workers with LLMs to write Natural Language Inference (NLI) hypotheses similarly results in annotation artifacts. We recreate a portion of the Stanford NLI corpus using GPT-4, Llama-2 and Mistral 7b, and train hypothesis-only classifiers to determine whether LLM-elicited hypotheses contain annotation artifacts. On our LLM-elicited NLI datasets, BERT-based hypothesis-only classifiers achieve between 86-96% accuracy, indicating these datasets contain hypothesis-only artifacts. We also find frequent "give-aways" in LLM-generated hypotheses, e.g. the phrase "swimming in a pool" appears in more than 10,000 contradictions generated by GPT-4. Our analysis provides empirical evidence that well-attested biases in NLI can persist in LLM-generated data.

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@article{arxiv.2410.08996,
  title  = {Hypothesis-only Biases in Large Language Model-Elicited Natural Language Inference},
  author = {Grace Proebsting and Adam Poliak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08996},
  year   = {2024}
}