Papers by Widyadewi Soedarmadji
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are trained from vast repositories of text authored by millions of distinct authors, reflecting an enormous diversity of human traits. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for conditioning LLMs to particular virtual personas by harnessing open-ended life narratives, which they refer to as backstories, and demonstrate that it improves consistency and reliability of experimental outcomes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves consistency and reliability of experimental outcomes while ensuring better representation of diverse sub-populations. |