Weak-to-Strong Honesty Alignment via Learning-to-Rank Supervision (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to enhance honesty with prompt engineering and fine-tuning are limited by annotated data. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enhances honesty through weak-to-strong generalization by training weak LLMs under weak supervision to improve their honesty. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves honesty in large models even with limited label data. |
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