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|     | Automatically |     | Correcting |     | Large | Language |     | Models: |     |     |     |
| --- | ------------- | --- | ---------- | --- | ----- | -------- | --- | ------- | --- | --- | --- |
Surveying the Landscape of Diverse Automated Correction Strategies
|     |     | LiangmingPan,  |     | MichaelSaxon, |     |         | WendaXu, |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | -------------- | --- | ------------- | --- | ------- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|     |     | DeepakNathani, |     | XinyiWang,    |     | William | YangWang |     |     |     |     |
UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara,USA
{liangmingpan, saxon, wendaxu, dnathani, xinyi wang}@ucsb.edu
william@cs.ucsb.edu
|     |     | Abstract |     |     | 2023b; | Wu  | et al., | 2023b), | generating | inappropri- |     |
| --- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | ------ | --- | ------- | ------- | ---------- | ----------- | --- |
ateorharmfulcontent(Gehmanetal.,2020;Levy
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| While large | language | models | (LLMs) | have |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | -------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
shown remarkable effectiveness in various to trustfully follow rules and constraints (Zhuo
NLPtasks,theyarestillpronetoissuessuchas
etal.,2023;Wangetal.,2023a).Suchflawedbe-
| hallucination, | unfaithful | reasoning, | and | toxi- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------- | ---------- | ---------- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
haviorshamperthetrustinLLMsandposehurdles
| city. A | promising | approach | to rectify | these |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | --------- | -------- | ---------- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
totheirreal-worldapplications(OpenAI,2023).
flawsiscorrectingLLMswithfeedback,where
Aprevailingstrategytorectifytheseundesired
theLLMitselfispromptedorguidedwithfeed-
backtofixproblemsinitsownoutput.Tech- behaviors of LLMs is learning from feedback,
mirroringatypicalhumanlearningstrategywhere
niquesleveragingautomatedfeedback—either
produced by the LLM itself (self-correction) individualsactivelyrefinetheirbehaviorsthrough
orsomeexternalsystem—areofparticularin-
|     |     |     |     |     | a cycle | of  | trial, error, |     | and correction. |     | Humans, |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- | ------------- | --- | --------------- | --- | ------- |
terestastheymakeLLM-basedsolutionsmore
|     |     |     |     |     | when | making | mistakes, |     | often gather | feedback | ei- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | ------ | --------- | --- | ------------ | -------- | --- |
practicalanddeployablewithminimalhuman
|               |      |                |     |         | ther | from   | others or | through   | self-reflection |          | (Boyd   |
| ------------- | ---- | -------------- | --- | ------- | ---- | ------ | --------- | --------- | --------------- | -------- | ------- |
| intervention. | This | paper provides | an  | exhaus- |      |        |           |           |                 |          |         |
|               |      |                |     |         | and  | Fales, | 1983;     | Metcalfe, | 2017;           | Ferretti | et al., |
tivereviewoftherecentadvancesincorrecting
LLMswithautomatedfeedback,categorizing 2019;Londonetal.,2023;Bellha¨useretal.,2023).
Suchfeedbackoffersvaluableinsightsforhumans
| them into | training-time, | generation-time, |     | and |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | -------------- | ---------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
post-hoc approaches. We also identify poten- tocorrectmistakesandmodifytheirbehaviorac-
tial challenges and future directions in this cordingly.Inspiredbythisnaturallearningmech-
emergingfield.
|     |     |     |     |     | anism, | extensive |     | research | (Huang | et  | al., 2022; |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | --------- | --- | -------- | ------ | --- | ---------- |
Madaanetal.,2023;Geroetal.,2023;Jiangetal.,
| 1 Introduction |     |     |     |     | 2023)   | has | been undertaken |     | to       | improve | LLMs     |
| -------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- | --------------- | --- | -------- | ------- | -------- |
|                |     |     |     |     | through | the | paradigm        | of  | learning | from    | both in- |
Recent years have seen striking empirical suc- ternalandexternalfeedback.
cesses of large language models (LLMs), as they One popular line of research involves the use
consistentlyobtainimpressiveresultsacrossadi- ofhumanfeedbacktoevaluateandrefinemodels,
verserangeofNLPbenchmarks(Guoetal.,2023; as encapsulated in the survey by Fernandes et al.
Suzgun et al., 2023; Qin et al., 2023), while also (2023). These methods typically involve direct
showcasingsurprisingabilitiesoflanguageunder- optimization of LLMs against human feedback
standing (Wei et al., 2022a; Begus et al., 2023), on their outputs (Kreutzer et al., 2018; Glaese
generation(PuandDemberg,2023;LinandChen, et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Scheurer et al.,
2023;Lyuetal.,2023a),andreasoning(Weietal., 2023),wherehumanevaluationsofoutputquality
2022b;Kojimaetal.,2022;Dasguptaetal.,2022). serveasarewardsignaltoimprovemodelperfor-
However,thesemodelsarenotwithouttheirflaws. mance. However, this approach has two primary
LLMs are observed to intermittently display un- drawbacks: It can be costly due to the manual
desired and inconsistent behaviors such as pro- labor involved, and it lacks real-time capabilities
ducing seemingly convincing but inaccurate ashumanscannotprovideinstantfeedback.
‘‘hallucinations’’ (Lin et al., 2022; Zhang et al., To minimize the need for human intervention,
2023c; Min et al., 2023), conducting unfaithful another strategy is correcting LLMs with auto-
reasoning (Golovneva et al., 2023; Lyu et al., mated feedback. As illustrated by the conceptual
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Figure 1: A conceptual framework for correcting LLMs with automated feedback. We identify three parties
involvedintheprototypicalcorrectionpipelinethatareanalogoustoapatient,doctor,andtreatmentinmedicine,
respectively:ALanguageModelproducesinitialoutput,aCriticModelanalyzestheoutputandprovidesfeedback,
andaRefineModelprovidestreatmenttoeithertheoutputorthelanguagemodel.Wetaxonomizeexistingworks
using this conceptualization along five key aspects: the problem to be corrected, the source and format of the
feedback,andthestrategyandlearningmethodoftherefinemodel.
(§
frameworkinFigure1,thelanguagemodel(itera- major techniques 3), categorized as training-
tively) learns from automatically generated feed- time, generation-time, and post-hoc correction.
back signals to understand the consequences of Finally,wediscusstheconnectiontoearlierworks
(§4)andfivepotentialfuturedirections(§5).
itsactionsandadaptsitsbehaviors.Thesourceof
automatedfeedbackcanbemultifaceted,spanning
fromtheLLMitselfactingasthefeedbackmodel
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 2 ConceptualFramework |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
(Madaanetal.,2023;Schicketal.,2023),asepa-
ratelytrainedfeedbackmodel(Yangetal.,2022b; For clean exposition, we first present a concep-
| Paul et | al., 2023), | readily |     | available    | external | tools    |                |     |           |     |         |         |     |
| ------- | ----------- | ------- | --- | ------------ | -------- | -------- | -------------- | --- | --------- | --- | ------- | ------- | --- |
|         |             |         |     |              |          |          | tual framework |     | outlining | the | overall | process | of  |
| (Gou et | al., 2023;  | Chen    | et  | al., 2023e), | to       | external |                |     |           |     |         |         |     |
correctingLLMswithfeedbackinFigure1,using
knowledge sources such as Wikipedia or the in- an analogy of medical treatment in our daily life.
ternet (Yu et al., 2023; Li et al., 2023b). Various Threepartiesareinvolvedinthisprocess:
| strategies | of  | correction | have | been | proposed, | in- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------- | --- | ---------- | ---- | ---- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
cludingself-training(Huangetal.,2022;Baietal.,
|                                             |        |                   |             |           |         |          | • Language            |       | Model   | (Patient).  | A           | language   |     |
| ------------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------------- | ----------- | --------- | ------- | -------- | --------------------- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | ----------- | ---------- | --- |
| 2022b),generate-then-rank(Heetal.,2023;Weng |        |                   |             |           |         |          |                       | M     | X       | → Y         |             |            |     |
|                                             |        |                   |             |           |         |          | model                 |       | :       | performs    |             | a specific |     |
| et al.,                                     | 2023), | feedback-guided   |             | decoding  |         | (Yang    |                       |       |         |             |             |            |     |
|                                             |        |                   |             |           |         |          | taskbymappinganinputx |       |         |             | ∈ X         | toanoutput |     |
| et al., 2022a;                              |        | Xie et            | al., 2023), | iterative |         | post-hoc |                       |       |         |             |             |            |     |
|                                             |        |                   |             |           |         |          | text                  | yˆ ∈  | Y. This | formulation | encompasses |            |     |
| revision                                    | (Zhang | et al.,           | 2023a;      | Jiang     | et al., | 2023),   |                       |       |         |             |             |            |     |
|                                             |        |                   |             |           |         |          | a wide                | range | of      | NLP tasks,  | for         | example,   | in  |
| etc. Recently,                              |        | the incorporation |             | of        | such    | strate-  |                       |       |         |             |             |            |     |
summarization,xisapassage,yˆisthegener-
gieshasdemonstratedtheireffectivenessacrossa
|        |           |      |          |           |     |       | ated | summary; | for | question-answering, |     |     | x is |
| ------ | --------- | ---- | -------- | --------- | --- | ----- | ---- | -------- | --- | ------------------- | --- | --- | ---- |
| myriad | of tasks, | from | question | answering |     | (Peng |      |          |     |                     |     |     |      |
aquestionandyˆisthepredictedanswer.The
| et al., 2023) |     | and reasoning |     | (Pan et | al., | 2023) to |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | --- | ------------- | --- | ------- | ---- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
initialgenerationyˆmayhaveproblemssuch
codegeneration(Zhangetal.,2023b)andtoxicity
ashallucinationandincorrectreasoning.
detection(Luetal.,2022).
•
In light of these advancements, our paper aims CriticModel(Doctor&Diagnosis).Acritic
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | C   | X × | Y → F |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- |
to provide a comprehensive survey. We start by model : learns to generate
establishing the concept of correcting LLMs with feedback x,yˆ → c where yˆ ∼ M(x) is
automated feedback and creating a taxonomy of the output or partial output of the language
(§
the different methods 2). We then discuss the model,andcisthefeedbackofsomeformat,
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•
e.g.,scalarvalue,ornaturallanguage.Asim- Toxic, Biased, and Harmful Content.
ple example is binary feedback of whether LLMs have been observed to occasionally
the output is good or bad given the input generate content that is toxic, biased, or
(C : X ×Y → {0,1}). harmful due to biases present in the training
data(Shaikhetal.,2023).Torectifythis,re-
•
Refine Model (Treatment). A refine model inforcement learning from human feedback
| R     | : X ×Y×F |     | → Y         | learnstorepairanout- |              |     |                                      |         |      |             |       |          |         |
| ----- | -------- | --- | ----------- | -------------------- | ------------ | --- | ------------------------------------ | ------- | ---- | ----------- | ----- | -------- | ------- |
|       |          |     |             |                      |              |     | (RLHF)                               | (Ouyang |      | et al.,     | 2022; | Bai      | et al., |
| put   | x,yˆ,c   | → y | based       | on                   | the feedback | c,  |                                      |         |      |             |       |          |         |
|       |          |     | new         |                      |              |     | 2022a)                               | has     | been | extensively |       | employed | to      |
| where | y        | is  | the revised |                      | output. Some | re- |                                      |         |      |             |       |          |         |
|       |          | new |             |                      |              |     | trainLLMstoalignmorecloselywithhuman |         |      |             |       |          |         |
fine models directly repair the language values, such as being helpful, honest, and
| model | M   | through | fine-tuning |     | or reinforce- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----- | --- | ------- | ----------- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
harmless.However,RLHFisheavilydepen-
mentlearning.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | dent | on high-quality |     | human | feedback, |     | the |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | --------------- | --- | ----- | --------- | --- | --- |
collectionofwhichcanberesource-intensive.
| Based | on  | the above | formulation, |     | the | specific |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----- | --- | --------- | ------------ | --- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Toalleviatethis,recentwork(Luetal.,2022;
| model design |     | in existing | works |     | varies along | five |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | --- | ----------- | ----- | --- | ------------ | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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Gouetal.,2023)hasalsoexploredcollecting
crucialaxes,elaboratedinthefollowingsections.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | automated | feedback |     | to  | identify | and | correct |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | -------- | --- | --- | -------- | --- | ------- |
potentiallyharmfuloutputs.
2.1 WhatGetsCorrected?
|              |     |          |       |            |             |          | 2.2 WhatIstheSourceoftheFeedback? |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | --- | -------- | ----- | ---------- | ----------- | -------- | --------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| We summarize |     | the      | three | major      | error types | of       |                                   |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| LLMs that    | are | targeted | for   | correction | in          | existing |                                   |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Feedbackcanbebroadlydividedintohumanfeed-
worksthroughautomatedfeedback. back and automated feedback. Fernandes et al.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | (2023) provided |     | a survey | on  | integrating |     | human |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | -------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ----- |
•
Hallucination.AnopenchallengeforLLMs
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | feedback | for language |     | generation. | In  | our | survey, |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | ------------ | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | ------- |
is that they often hallucinate by making up we focus on the emerging research area of auto-
| facts | or          | citing | sources | that | do not exist | (Li  |                 |     |       |           |            |     |      |
| ----- | ----------- | ------ | ------- | ---- | ------------ | ---- | --------------- | --- | ----- | --------- | ---------- | --- | ---- |
|       |             |        |         |      |              |      | mated feedback, |     | which | typically | originates |     | from |
| et    | al., 2023a; | Zhang  | et      | al., | 2023c). This | hal- |                 |     |       |           |            |     |      |
twosources:self-feedback(i.e.,thefeedbackorig-
| lucinated |     | content | is  | often | quite plausible- |     |             |     |     |         |              |     |       |
| --------- | --- | ------- | --- | ----- | ---------------- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | ------- | ------------ | --- | ----- |
|           |     |         |     |       |                  |     | inates from | the | LLM | itself) | and external |     | feed- |
sounding,makingitdifficultevenforhumans
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | back (i.e., | the feedback |     | is derived |     | from external |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | ------------ | --- | ---------- | --- | ------------- | --- |
todetect(Clarketal.,2021).Toaddressthis,
models,tools,orknowledgesources).
| several | studies |     | have proposed |     | the collection |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | ------- | --- | ------------- | --- | -------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
of automated feedback on potential factual • Self-Feedback. The LLM can act as its
| inaccuracies |     | by  | cross-referencing |     | the | gener- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | --- | --- | ----------------- | --- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ownfeedbackproviderbyiterativelyassess-
atedoutputwithcredibleknowledgesources. ing and refining its generated outputs until
The gathered feedback can then be utilized it meets a certain standard (Madaan et al.,
byasubsequentrefinementmodeltocorrect
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 2023; | Shinn | et al., | 2023). | This | continuous |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ---- | ---------- | --- |
hallucinations(Gaoetal.,2023b;Pengetal.,
|        |     |     |     |     |     |     | self-improvement |             |          | strategy | has        | proven | effec- |
| ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------- | ----------- | -------- | -------- | ---------- | ------ | ------ |
| 2023). |     |     |     |     |     |     | tive             | in multiple | studies, |          | especially | when   | ex-    |
ternalfeedbackisunavailableorlimited(Ye
| • Unfaithful |     | Reasoning. |     |          |     |        |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | --- | ---------- | --- | -------- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|              |     |            |     | A number | of  | recent |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
etal.,2023;Yanetal.,2023).
| studies |     | (Ribeiro | et al., | 2023; | Lyu | et al., |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | --- | -------- | ------- | ----- | --- | ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
•
2023b; Golovneva et al., 2023) found that External Feedback for LLMs comes
LLMs occasionally make unfaithful reason- from other models (Yang et al., 2022b;
ing, i.e., the derived conclusion does not Lightmanetal.,2023),tools(Gouetal.,2023;
follow the previously generated reasoning Charalambous et al., 2023), knowledge
chain. To address this, existing works have sources (Gao et al., 2023b; Yu et al., 2023),
usedautomatedfeedbackfromexternaltools and evaluation metrics (Jung et al., 2022;
or models for guiding the reasoning process Wellecketal.,2023).Externalfeedbackpro-
(Xieetal.,2023;Yaoetal.,2023a),verifying videsavaluableoutsideperspectiveforiden-
the reasoning process and rectifying errors tifyingerrorsthattheLLMcannotrecognize
(He et al., 2023; Pan et al., 2023), or fine- on its own. For example, code interpreters
tuning LLMs with process-based feedback arewidelyusedinprogrammingtaskstopro-
(Huangetal.,2022;Lightmanetal.,2023). videreal-timeerrormessages;whileexternal
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knowledge sources are used to verify the tion may be hindered by the infeasibility of
| factualaccuracy. |     |     |     |     |     | fine-tuning |       | giant    | closed-source |     | LLMs, such |
| ---------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | ----- | -------- | ------------- | --- | ---------- |
|                  |     |     |     |     |     | as          | GPT-4 | (OpenAI, | 2023)         | and | the poten- |
2.3 WhatIstheFormatoftheFeedback? tial unavailability of feedback during model
training.
| The selection | of  | the feedback | format |     | requires |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | --- | ------------ | ------ | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
considering its expressivity, ease of collection, • Generation-time Correction.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | It utilizes au- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- |
and its potential to improve systems (Fernandes tomated feedback to guide the LLM to cor-
et al., 2023). Automated feedback is commonly rect errors during generation. For example,
eitherascalarvalueorinnaturallanguage. for proof generation, several studies utilize
|     |     |     |     |     |     | the | automated | feedback |     | of the | intermediate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | -------- | --- | ------ | ------------ |
•
Scalar Value Feedback. In this scenario, reasoningstepstoguidethemodeltorecover
| the critic  | model | maps    | the input | and | output |         |           |            |      |      |                |
| ----------- | ----- | ------- | --------- | --- | ------ | ------- | --------- | ---------- | ---- | ---- | -------------- |
|             |       |         |           |     |        | from    | incorrect | generation |      | and  | search for the |
|             |       | (C      | X × Y     | → N | ⊆ R).  |         |           |            |      |      |                |
| to a single |       | score : |           |     |        | optimal |           | solution   | in a | more | efficient way  |
Scalarvaluefeedbackcanbeeasilyintegrated (Yangetal.,2022a;Lightmanetal.,2023).
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| into the | training/decoding |     | process | of  | LLMs. |            |     |             |     |            |           |
| -------- | ----------------- | --- | ------- | --- | ----- | ---------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ---------- | --------- |
|          |                   |     |         |     |       | • Post-hoc |     | Correction. |     | It refines | the model |
Forexample,Xieetal.(2023)usereal-value
|          |       |                   |               |           |        | output   | after | it has    | been        | generated, | without    |
| -------- | ----- | ----------------- | ------------- | --------- | ------ | -------- | ----- | --------- | ----------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| feedback | for   | each intermediate |               | reasoning |        |          |       |           |             |            |            |
|          |       |                   |               |           |        | updating |       | the model | parameters. |            | This typi- |
| step to  | guide | the model         | in performing |           | a sto- |          |       |           |             |            |            |
callyinvolvesaniterativeprocessofgenerat-
chasticbeamsearchfortheoptimalsolution.
|     |     |     |     |     |     | ing | output, | receiving | feedback, |     | and refining |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --------- | --------- | --- | ------------ |
Despiteitsflexibility,scalarfeedbackisless
|     |     |     |     |     |     | output. | Post-hoc |     | correction |     | is more flexi- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | -------- | --- | ---------- | --- | -------------- |
descriptivefordetailedcorrections.
|     |     |     |     |     |     | ble | as it | does not | require | training | the LLM |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | -------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
•
Natural Language Feedback provides or accessing its parameters. Furthermore, it
richerinformationthatcanhighlightspecific
|     |     |     |     |     |     | facilitates |     | the incorporation |     |     | of more infor- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | ----------------- | --- | --- | -------------- |
errors and provide nuanced suggestions for mative natural language feedback, offering
improvement. This is important for certain a more transparent and explainable self-
| applications |     | such as | text editing | and | code |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | --- | ------- | ------------ | --- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
correctionprocess.
| generation. |     | For example, | Self-Debug |     | (Chen |                          |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | --- | ------------ | ---------- | --- | ----- | ------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|             |     |              |            |     |       | 2.5 HowtoCorrecttheModel |     |     |     |     |     |
etal.,2023e)usesLLMstogenerateexplana-
withFeedback?
| tions for       | the | produced | code and  | utilize | both |         |          |            |     |      |               |
| --------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | ------- | ---- | ------- | -------- | ---------- | --- | ---- | ------------- |
| the explanation |     | and the  | execution | results | as   |         |          |            |     |      |               |
|                 |     |          |           |         |      | Various | concrete | strategies |     | have | been proposed |
feedbacktoenhancecodingsolutions. tocorrectLLMswithautomatedfeedback,which
|     |     |     |     |     |     | are tailored | to  | the different | dimensions |     | we men- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------ | --- | ------------- | ---------- | --- | ------- |
2.4 WhentoCorrecttheModel?
|     |     |     |     |     |     | tioned in | previous | sections. |     | For | example, self- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | -------- | --------- | --- | --- | -------------- |
Dependingonthetimingofusingautomatedfeed- trainingisoftenusedfortraining-timecorrection.
back to correct the model, existing work can be Generate-then-rankoftencomeswithscalarvalue
dividedintothreemajorcategories. feedback.Wewillcoverthecomprehensiveland-
scapeofself-correctionstrategiesinSection3.
| • Training-time |       | Correction. |        |           |        |                           |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------- | ----- | ----------- | ------ | --------- | ------ | ------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|                 |       |             |        | The ideal | sce-   |                           |     |     |     |     |     |
|                 |       |             |        |           |        | 2.6 SummaryofExistingWork |     |     |     |     |     |
| nario           | is to | rectify a   | flawed | model     | during |                           |     |     |     |     |     |
training,priortoitsdeploymentforuse.Once Building upon the taxonomy established in the
feedback has been collected, it is directly preceding sections, we collate existing work in
used to optimize the model parameters. Hu- Table1andTable2.Wehavethreemajorselection
man feedback is typically used for training- criteriaforaworktobeincludedinthissurvey:
time correction, as exemplified by the widely 1. Automated Feedback: Explicit feedback
adopted RLHF approach (Ouyang et al., is involved to assess the quality of the model
2022). For leveraging automated feedback, output.Wefocusonautomatedfeedbackthatorig-
a common strategy is self-training (Huang inates from external models, metrics, knowledge,
et al., 2022), where the model is trained etc. However, we will cover some representative
with its own generated high-quality output worksofhumanfeedbackforcompleteness.
filteredoutbythecriticmodel.However,the 2. Model Refinement: The feedback should
practicalapplicationoftraining-timecorrec- act as a directive to enhance the LLM, either by:
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Feedback ModelRefinement
Method Application
Source Format Strategy Learning
Training-TimeCorrection
RLHF(Ouyangetal.,2022) RewardModel Scalar RLHF RL MultipleTasks
Fine-GrainedRLHF(Wuetal.,2023a) RewardModel Scalar RLHF RL Detoxification,Long-formQA
HH-RLHF(Baietal.,2022a) RewardModel Scalar RLHF SL&RL Helpfulness,Harmlessness
MoralRLHF(Gangulietal.,2023) RewardModel Scalar RLHF RL MoralCorrection
Sparrow(Glaeseetal.,2022) RewardModel NL RLHF SL&RL Dialogue
ILF(Scheureretal.,2023) HumanFeedback NL Fine-tuning SL Summarization
ILF-Code(Chenetal.,2023a) HumanFeedback NL Fine-tuning SL CodeGeneration
SLT(Yuanetal.,2023) HumanFeedback NL Fine-tuning SL ResponseGeneration
Chain-of-Hindsight(Liuetal.,2023a) HumanFeedback NL Fine-tuning SL MultipleTasks
Crystal(Liuetal.,2023b) LanguageModel Scalar Fine-Tuning SL&RL CommonsenseReasoning
STaR(Zelikmanetal.,2022) LanguageModel NL Self-Training SL QA,Reasoning
RLAIF(Baietal.,2022b) LanguageModel NL Self-Training SL&RL Dialogue
SIRLC(Pangetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Training RL Reasoning,Translation,Summary
Self-Improve(Huangetal.,2022) LanguageModel NL Self-Training SL QA,Reasoning,NLI
AlpacaFarm(Duboisetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Training SL&RL None(IntrinsicEvaluation)
ReST(Gulcehreetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Training RL MachineTranslation
Generation-TimeCorrection
Self-Verification(Wengetal.,2023) LanguageModel Scalar Re-Ranking ICL ArithmeticReasoning
CodeT(Chenetal.,2023b) ProgramExecutor Scalar Re-Ranking ICL CodeGeneration
LEVER(Nietal.,2023) ProgramExecutor Scalar Re-Ranking SL TableQA,MathQA,Program
RR(Heetal.,2023) ExternalKnowledge Scalar Re-Ranking — Reasoning
InstructScore(Xuetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Re-Ranking SL GenerationEvaluation
MBRDecoding(Freitagetal.,2022) ExternalMetrics Scalar Re-Ranking SL MachineTranslation
DIVERSE(Lietal.,2023d) TrainedModel Scalar Re-Ranking SL ArithmeticReasoning
PRM(Lightmanetal.,2023) RewardModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ArithmeticReasoning
DiffusionLM(Lietal.,2022) TrainedModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ControlledTextGeneration
Fudge(YangandKlein,2021) TrainedModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ControlledTextGeneration
Entailer(Tafjordetal.,2022) TrainedModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ProofGeneration
NLProofS(Yangetal.,2022a) TrainedModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ProofGeneration
GRACE(Khalifaetal.,2023) TrainedModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ArithmeticReasoning
CoRe(Zhuetal.,2023) TrainedModel Scalar Feedback-guided SL ArithmeticReasoning
Varshneyetal.(2023) ExternalKnowledge NL Feedback-guided ICL HallucinationDetection
MemPrompt(Madaanetal.,2022) ExternalKnowledge NL Feedback-guided ICL LexicalandEthicalReasoning
MaieuticPrompting(Jungetal.,2022) ExternalMetrics Scalar Feedback-guided ICL CommonsenseReasoning
SI(CreswellandShanahan,2022) LanguageModel Scalar Feedback-guided ICL ProofGeneration
RAP(Haoetal.,2023) LanguageModel Scalar Feedback-guided ICL Planning,Reasoning
SelfEval-Decoding(Xieetal.,2023) LanguageModel Scalar Feedback-guided ICL Arithmetic/SymbolicReasoning
SelfCheck(Miaoetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Feedback-guided ICL ArithmeticReasoning
TreeofThoughts(Yaoetal.,2023a) LanguageModel NL/Scalar Feedback-guided ICL Games,Writing
Table1:RepresentativeworksonTraining-timeCorrectionandGeneration-TimeCorrection.
1) updating model parameters, or 2) altering the therefinement,4)whethertherefinementprocess
model’soutputduringorpostthegeneration. isiterative,and5)theapplicationofthemethod.
3.LargeLanguageModel:Weprimarilyfocus
3 Methodologies
on automated correction strategies in the era of
modern large language models. Given this focus, Inthissection,wedelveintoadetailedreviewof
wemainlyemphasizeveryrecentworkfrom2022 various correction methodologies. Depending on
and2023.However,itisimportanttoacknowledge thetimethatthecorrectionhappens,wecategorize
thattheconceptofautomatedcorrectionisnotnew them as Training-Time Correction, Generation-
and has roots in early NLP research. To provide TimeCorrection,andPost-hocCorrection.
a complete historical perspective, we provide a
succinct overview of these initial approaches to 3.1 Training-TimeCorrection
automatedcorrectioninSection4.1. Training-timecorrectionrectifiesmodelbehavior
Thesestudiesarecategorizedbasedonthethree during the training phase. We identify three typi-
strategiesintroducedinSection2.4.Wealsosum- calstrategiesshowninFigure2.Eachstrategyuti-
marize key features of each study, including: 1) lizes different forms of feedback to optimize the
thesourceoffeedback,2)theformatoffeedback, model during training: human feedback (a), a re-
3)thestrategyandlearningmethodemployedfor wardmodel(b),andautomatedfeedback(c).
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Feedback ModelRefinement
Method Application
Source Format Strategy Learning Iter.
Post-hocCorrection
Self-Refine(Madaanetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✓ MultipleTasks
ClinicalSV(Geroetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✗ InformationExtraction
Reflexion(Shinnetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine RL ✓ QA,CodeGeneration
IterRefinement(Chenetal.,2023d) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✓ MachineTranslation
Auto-Post-Editing(Raunaketal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✗ MachineTranslation
RCI(Kimetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✓ ComputerTasks
SelFee(Yeetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine SL ✓ Dialogue
SelfCheckGPT(Manakuletal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✗ HallucinationDetection
LLMSelfDefense(Helblingetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL Self-Refine ICL ✗ HarmfulTextCorrection
Re3(Yangetal.,2022b) TrainedModel Scalar ExternalFeedback SL&ICL ✓ StoryGeneration
CodeRL(Leetal.,2022) TrainedModel Scalar ExternalFeedback RL ✗ CodeGeneration
FLIRT(Mehrabietal.,2023) TrainedModel Scalar ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ AdversarialPromptGeneration
REFINER(Pauletal.,2023) TrainedModel NL ExternalFeedback SL&ICL ✓ Reasoning,MoralStory
RL4F(Akyu¨reketal.,2023) TrainedModel NL ExternalFeedback SL&RL ✓ Planning,Summarization
Yanetal.(2023) TrainedModel NL ExternalFeedback SL ✓ SemanticParsing
Baldur(Firstetal.,2023) TrainedModel NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ ProofGeneration
CRITIC(Gouetal.,2023) ExternalTools NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ QA,Program,Toxicity
FacTool(Chernetal.,2023) ExternalTools NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ QA,Reasoning,Generation
MAF(Nathanietal.,2023) ExternalTools NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ QA,Reasoning
RARR(Gaoetal.,2023b) ExternalKnowledge NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✗ Open-DomainQA
LLM-Augmenter(Pengetal.,2023) ExternalKnowledge NL ExternalFeedback RL ✓ Open-DomainQA
Self-Checker(Lietal.,2023b) ExternalKnowledge NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✗ Fact-Checking
REFEED(Yuetal.,2023) ExternalKnowledge NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✗ QA,Dialogue
Olaussonetal.(2023) ProgramExecutor NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ CodeGeneration
Self-Edit(Zhangetal.,2023a) ProgramExecutor NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ CodeGeneration
Self-Debug(Chenetal.,2023e) ProgramExecutor NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ CodeGeneration
Self-Evolve(Jiangetal.,2023) ProgramExecutor NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ CodeGeneration
Logic-LM(Panetal.,2023) SymbolicSolver NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ LogicalReasoning
Self-Critique(Saundersetal.,2022) LLMs+Human NL ExternalFeedback SL ✗ Summarization
ALGO(Zhangetal.,2023b) OracleVerifier Scalar ExternalFeedback ICL ✓ CodeGeneration
Charalambousetal.(2023) BMCTool NL ExternalFeedback ICL ✗ SoftwareVerification
Self-Correction(Wellecketal.,2023) ExternalMetrics NL/Scalar ExternalFeedback SL ✓ Reasoning,Generation,Toxicity
MultiagentDebate(Duetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL ModelDebate ICL ✓ Reasoning,Factuality
LMvsLM(Cohenetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL ModelDebate ICL ✓ FactualErrorDetection
ICL-AIF(Fuetal.,2023) LanguageModel NL ModelDebate ICL ✓ BargainingGame
PRD(Lietal.,2023c) LanguageModel NL ModelDebate ICL ✓ Open-endedQA
MADRA(Wangetal.,2023b) LanguageModel NL ModelDebate ICL ✓ QA,Fact-Checking
ReConcile(Chenetal.,2023c) LanguageModel NL ModelDebate ICL ✓ Reasoning
Table2:RepresentativeworkonPost-hocCorrection.
Figure 2: Three typical strategies of training-time correction: direct optimization with human feedback (a),
trainingarewardmodelthatapproximateshumanfeedback(b),andself-trainingwithautomatedfeedback(c).
Direct Optimization with Human Feedback. 2022; Scheurer et al., 2023; Chen et al., 2023a).
In an ideal scenario, we would directly leverage However, only utilizing positive-rated data may
human feedback to optimize the model parame- constrain the model’s ability to identify and cor-
ters, following the framework in Figure 2(a): 1) rect negative attributes or errors. To address this,
CandidateoutputsaregeneratedbyLLMs,2)Hu- Chain-of-Hindsight (Liu et al., 2023a) fine-tunes
mans provide feedback or refinements on these the LLM on model outputs paired with both pos-
outputs,and3)LLMsarethendirectlyoptimized itive and negative feedback. Beyond fine-tuning,
onthecollected(outputs,feedback)tobetteralign other optimization methods are explored as well.
with human preferences. A simple strategy is to For example, Gao et al. (2023a) utilize human
fine-tunethemodelontheoutputsthatreceivepos- feedback as the reward signal and optimize the
itive feedback from human raters (Glaese et al., modelwithcontextualbanditlearning.
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| Reward   | Modeling |       | and      | RLHF. | Direct  | opti-  |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | -------- | ----- | -------- | ----- | ------- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| mization | with     | human | feedback |       | may not | always |     |     |     |     |     |
bepractical,sincecollectinghumanfeedbackcan
| be both   | labor-intensive |     | and   | time-consuming. |          | An    |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | --------------- | --- | ----- | --------------- | -------- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| efficient | alternative     |     | is to | train           | a reward | model |     |     |     |     |     |
thatemulateshumanfeedback.Oncetrained,this
| reward | model | can | provide | consistent, |     | real-time |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | ----- | --- | ------- | ----------- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
feedbackforeverymodeloutput,therebycircum-
ventingtheneedforconstanthumaninvolvement.
| A prominent |     | example | of  | this approach |     | is RLHF |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | --- | ------- | --- | ------------- | --- | ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
(Ouyangetal.,2022),asillustratedinFigure2(b).
| It first asks | human |     | annotators | to  | label the | prefer- |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | ----- | --- | ---------- | --- | --------- | ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
encefordifferentLLMoutputsandthentrainthe
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| terward,        | reinforcement |        | learning     |     | (RL) algorithms |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------- | ------------- | ------ | ------------ | --- | --------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| (e.g., Proximal |               | Policy | Optimization |     | [Schulman       |     |     |     |     |     |     |
etal.,2017])areemployedtooptimizethemodel.
| RLHF and   | its  | variants | have   | proven | effective  | in  |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------- | ---- | -------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| correcting | LLMs | to       | become | more   | beneficial | and |     |     |     |     |     |
Figure3:Theillustrationsofthetwotypicalstrategies
| less harmful | (Bai | et  | al., 2022a), | as  | well | as instill- |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | ---- | --- | ------------ | --- | ---- | ----------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ofgeneration-timecorrection:(a)Generate-then-Rank,
ingmoralcorrectness(Gangulietal.,2023).
and(b)Feedback-GuidedDecoding.
| Self-TrainingwithAutomatedFeedback. |     |     |     |     |     | Re- |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ward modeling still requires the collection of inaccessible, and colossal LLMs with billions
| human | feedback. | To  | build | a fully | autonomous |     |                |      |              |                 |     |
| ----- | --------- | --- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --- | -------------- | ---- | ------------ | --------------- | --- |
|       |           |     |       |         |            |     | of parameters. | This | necessitates | generation-time |     |
self-improving agent, recent work has adopted correction methods that correct LLMs dur-
the self-training strategy that self-improves LLM ing the generation time. Two main strategies
| by bootstrapping |       | its | original | outputs, | as     | depicted |                        |     |     |                 |     |
| ---------------- | ----- | --- | -------- | -------- | ------ | -------- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- |
|                  |       |     |          |          |        |          | are Generate-then-Rank |     | and | Feedback-Guided |     |
| in Figure        | 2(c). | The | language | model    | itself | is used  |                        |     |     |                 |     |
Decoding.
| to provide | feedback |     | for | its own | output. | STaR |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------- | -------- | --- | --- | ------- | ------- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
(Zelikmanetal.,2022)leveragestheideaofchain-
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | Generate-then-Rank. |     | This | involves | sampling |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------- | --- | ---- | -------- | -------- |
of-thought to prompt LLM to generate answers alargenumberofcandidategenerationsandsub-
with rationales. They found that the performance sequently picking up the best generation based
of LLM can be improved by iteratively selecting on the feedback provided by the critic model, as
rationalesleadingtothecorrectanswertofurther illustrated in Figure 3(a). This approach is of-
finetune LLM. Self-training has also been used ten integrated with chain-of-thought prompting
to reduce the harmful responses of LLMs. For (Wei et al., 2022b) to tackle complex reasoning
| example, | in RLAIF |     | (Bai | et al., | 2022b), | the ini- |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | -------- | --- | ---- | ------- | ------- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
tasks,suchassolvingmathwordproblems.Given
tialtoxicresponsesarecriticiquedandrevisedby an input problem x, the LLM initially generates
,···
the LLM itself following a set of human-defined multiplecandidatesolutionsy ,y .Eachso-
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 1   | n   |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
principles. Afterward, the LLM is fine-tuned on lution y i = [z i ,a i ] comprises a reasoning path
therevisedresponses.AlpacaFarm(Duboisetal., (explanation) z leading to the predicted answer
i
2023) further shows that LLMs can self-improve a . Subsequently, the critic model C assigns a
i
withRL.ItdesignsLLMpromptstosimulatehu- plausibility score s to each candidate reason-
i
| man feedback |     | in RLHF | and | shows | that | the feed- |          |                |          |             |      |
| ------------ | --- | ------- | --- | ----- | ---- | --------- | -------- | -------------- | -------- | ----------- | ---- |
|              |     |         |     |       |      |           | ing path | z i . The best | solution | is selected | from |
backiseffectiveandgreatlyreducesthecost. the scored set (z ,a ,s )n via either ranking or
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | i   | i i i=1 |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- | --- |
voting.
3.2 Generation-TimeCorrection
VariouscriticmodelshavebeenusedforLLM
Correcting LLMs at training time is ideal but output verification. DIVERSE (Li et al., 2023d)
not always feasible because it can be resource- trains a binary verifier based on DeBERTa (He
intensive or even impractical for many LLMs, et al., 2021) to rate each reasoning path. Weng
e.g., closed-source LLMs where weights are etal.(2023)introducedatraining-freecriticmodel
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based on the consistency between forward and et al., 2023) or by making text perturbations
backward reasoning. In a different vein, RR (He onpositivesamples(Yangetal.,2022a).
| et al., | 2023) | used a | critic | model | to assess | rea- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | ----- | ------ | ------ | ----- | --------- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
•
|        |                   |     |     |            |            |     | External | Metric:  |         | Several | studies | also     | lever- |
| ------ | ----------------- | --- | --- | ---------- | ---------- | --- | -------- | -------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | -------- | ------ |
| soning | path faithfulness |     | by  | retrieving | supporting |     |          |          |         |         |         |          |        |
|        |                   |     |     |            |            |     | age      | external | metrics | to      | re-rank | or guide | text   |
informationfromaknowledgebase.Incodegen-
generationwithoutadditionalmodeltraining,
| eration,     | LEVER | (Ni     | et al.,   | 2023) | uses     | a veri- |      |          |         |     |       |      |        |
| ------------ | ----- | ------- | --------- | ----- | -------- | ------- | ---- | -------- | ------- | --- | ----- | ---- | ------ |
|              |       |         |           |       |          |         | such | as using | minimum |     | Bayes | risk | decod- |
| fier trained | on    | program | execution |       | results. | CodeT   |      |          |         |     |       |      |        |
ing(Freitagetal.,2022),attributeclassifiers
| (Chen et | al., 2023b) |     | similarly | employs |     | dual exe- |            |     |         |       |      |     |        |
| -------- | ----------- | --- | --------- | ------- | --- | --------- | ---------- | --- | ------- | ----- | ---- | --- | ------ |
|          |             |     |           |         |     |           | (Dathathri |     | et al., | 2020; | Yang | and | Klein, |
cutionagreementtoselectthebestcodesolution.
|                                                |     |     |           |         |          |           | 2021),   | and | Gaussian   |     | denoising | (Li       | et al., |
| ---------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --------- | ------- | -------- | --------- | -------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --------- | --------- | ------- |
| Feedback-Guided                                |     |     | Decoding. | Despite |          | its effi- | 2022).   |     |            |     |           |           |         |
| ciency,thegenerate-then-rankstrategyhasseveral |     |     |           |         |          |           | •        |     |            |     |           |           |         |
|                                                |     |     |           |         |          |           | External |     | Knowledge: |     | External  | knowledge |         |
| limitations:                                   | 1)  | The | critic    | model   | provides | only      |          |     |            |     |           |           |         |
sourceshavealsobeenusedtoprovidefeed-
coarse-grained,output-levelfeedback,2)Thelong
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | back. | Varshney |     | et al. | (2023) | use Wikipedia |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | -------- | --- | ------ | ------ | ------------- | --- |
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|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | to validate |     | and | correct | each | generated | sen- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | ------- | ---- | --------- | ---- |
sessment,and3)ItrequirestheLLMtowaituntil
tence,whichisthenreinsertedforfurthergen-
theentireoutputisgeneratedforanycorrections.
eration.Alternatively,MemPrompt(Madaan
| The | feedback-guided |     | decoding |     | strategy | shown |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --------------- | --- | -------- | --- | -------- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
etal.,2022)utilizesapoolofprioruserfeed-
| in Figure | 3(b) | overcomes |     | the above | limitations |     |      |          |     |      |            |       |     |
| --------- | ---- | --------- | --- | --------- | ----------- | --- | ---- | -------- | --- | ---- | ---------- | ----- | --- |
|           |      |           |     |           |             |     | back | to guide | the | text | generation | based | on  |
byusingstep-levelfeedbackforfine-grainedcon-
thecurrentquery’sintent.
| trol during | generation. |     | Each | output | y is | split into |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ----------- | --- | ---- | ------ | ---- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|             |             |     |      |        | ,··· |            | •   |     |     |     |     |     |     |
multiple reasoning steps y = [o ,o ,o ]. A Self-Evaluation: For better flexibility, meth-
|              |           |     |      | 1    | 2             | n   |     |      |                    |     |     |      |         |
| ------------ | --------- | --- | ---- | ---- | ------------- | --- | --- | ---- | ------------------ | --- | --- | ---- | ------- |
|              |           |     |      |      |               |     | ods | such | as Tree-of-Thought |     |     | (Yao | et al., |
| critic model | evaluates |     | each | step | o t , guiding | al- |     |      |                    |     |     |      |         |
gorithms like beam search to explore the output 2023a) and Guided-decoding (Xie et al.,
space systematically and correct early mistakes. 2023) use the LLM itself as the critic model
This strategy also helps alleviate the reason- by prompting it to evaluate each individ-
inginconsistencyproblem(Zelikmanetal.,2022; ual reasoning step, avoiding the need for
CreswellandShanahan,2022),i.e.,incorrectrea- fine-tuningtask-specificverifier.
soningleadstocorrectfinalanswer.Thisstrategy
|          |         |     |        |       |      |          | Different | strategies |     | are adopted |     | to control | the |
| -------- | ------- | --- | ------ | ----- | ---- | -------- | --------- | ---------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ---------- | --- |
| has been | adopted | in  | recent | works | like | Tree-of- |           |            |     |             |     |            |     |
Thought (Yao et al., 2023a), GRACE (Khalifa decoding process with the help of the step-level
|                |     |         |        |         |        |         | critic model.   | Tree-of-Thought |           |       | uses  | breadth-first |          |
| -------------- | --- | ------- | ------ | ------- | ------ | ------- | --------------- | --------------- | --------- | ----- | ----- | ------------- | -------- |
| et al., 2023), |     | and RAP | (Hao   | et al., | 2023), | which   |                 |                 |           |       |       |               |          |
|                |     |         |        |         |        |         | and depth-first |                 | searches, | while | GRACE |               | (Khalifa |
| vary mainly    |     | in the  | critic | model   | they   | employ, |                 |                 |           |       |       |               |          |
categorized into methods involving human feed- et al., 2023) and Xie et al. (2023) employ beam
back, trained verifiers, external metrics, external search. CoRe (Zhu et al., 2023) and RAP (Hao
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | et al., 2023) | use | Monte | Carlo | Tree | Search | for a |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | ----- | ----- | ---- | ------ | ----- |
knowledge,andself-evaluation.
balancebetweenexplorationandexploitation.
•
RewardModelfromHumanFeedback:Stud-
|       |             |         |          |                 |              |       | 3.3 Post-hocCorrection |     |     |                 |     |            |     |
| ----- | ----------- | ------- | -------- | --------------- | ------------ | ----- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | ---------- | --- |
| ies   | like Uesato |         | et al.   | (2022)          | and Lightman |       |                        |     |     |                 |     |            |     |
| et    | al. (2023)  | collect |          | human-annotated |              | step- |                        |     |     |                 |     |            |     |
|       |             |         |          |                 |              |       | The effectiveness      |     | of  | generation-time |     | correction |     |
| level | feedback    |         | to train | a more          | robust       | re-   |                        |     |     |                 |     |            |     |
hingesonthecriticmodel’sabilitytogiveprecise
| ward | model, |     | which | improves | reasoning |     |          |                  |     |     |          |               |     |
| ---- | ------ | --- | ----- | -------- | --------- | --- | -------- | ---------------- | --- | --- | -------- | ------------- | --- |
|      |        |     |       |          |           |     | feedback | for intermediate |     |     | outputs, | a challenging |     |
faithfulness.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | task in holistic |     | NLP | evaluations | like | summariza- |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------- | --- | --- | ----------- | ---- | ---------- | --- |
• Trained Verifier: To reduce the cost of hu- tion.Thismotivatesthepost-hoccorrectionmeth-
man annotations, some work (Yang et al., ods, where both critic and refinement models act
2022a; Tafjord et al., 2022; Li et al., 2023d; only after generating the complete output. Post-
Khalifa et al., 2023) uses automated meth- hoccorrectionallowsformorediversenaturallan-
ods to generate training data for obtaining guage feedback, ranging from specific diagnostic
a step-wise verifier. Positive examples are reports to broader writing suggestions. As shown
derived from ground-truth reasoning paths, in Figure 4, we categorize the key post-hoc cor-
while negative examples are synthesized by rection strategies into Self-Correction, Correction
proposing an alignment algorithm (Khalifa withExternalFeedback,andMulti-AgentDebate.
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Figure4:Threepost-hoccorrectionstrategies:self-correction(a),externalfeedback(b),multi-agentdebate(c).
Self-Correction. In ‘‘Self-Correction’’, a sin- tools,includingtrainedmodels,codeinterpreters,
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gle LLM both generates and refines its output. and search engines, offer specialized feedback to
As shown in Figure 4(a), the LLM first pro- addressLLMconstraints.
| duces an | output | and then | acts | as  | its critic | for |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | ------ | -------- | ---- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
•
iterative refinements. This process continues un- Code Interpreter. In code generation, mod-
| til the | output | obtains | an acceptable |     | quality | or  |          |           |        |     |             |     |
| ------- | ------ | ------- | ------------- | --- | ------- | --- | -------- | --------- | ------ | --- | ----------- | --- |
|         |        |         |               |     |         |     | els like | Self-Edit | (Zhang | et  | al., 2023a) | and |
a pre-specified number of iterations is reached. Self-Evolve employ program executors to
Self-Refine (Madaan et al., 2023) introduced an provide feedback from executed test cases.
effective framework using one LLM guided Others, like Self-Debug (Chen et al., 2023e)
by varied prompts for the roles of generation, andALGO(Zhangetal.,2023b),explorede-
critic, and refinement, respectively. Clinical Self- tailedfeedbackmechanismsusingunittests,
Verification (Gero et al., 2023) applies this to program explanations, or comparison with
| extract | clinical | data, refining |     | by spotting |     | missing |           |        |           |     |              |     |
| ------- | -------- | -------------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ------- | --------- | ------ | --------- | --- | ------------ | --- |
|         |          |                |     |             |     |         | reference | oracle | programs. |     | Charalambous |     |
elements and verifying data accuracy. Reflexion et al. (2023) use Bounded Model Checking
(Shinn et al., 2023) extends the method, adding forsoftwareverification.
| a ‘‘long-term |     | memory’’ | to recall | past | errors | and |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | ---- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
• LogicReasoner.Logic-LM(Panetal.,2023)
integratingdiversefeedbackforms.
|                        |            |         |         |                 |           |     | and Baldur  | (First    | et  | al., 2023) | harness          | ex- |
| ---------------------- | ---------- | ------- | ------- | --------------- | --------- | --- | ----------- | --------- | --- | ---------- | ---------------- | --- |
| Though                 | beneficial |         | in many | text-generation |           |     |             |           |     |            |                  |     |
|                        |            |         |         |                 |           |     | ternallogic | reasoners |     | and        | proof assistants | to  |
| tasks, self-correction |            | usually |         | demands         | powerful, |     |             |           |     |            |                  |     |
refineLLMoutputs,usingerrormessagesas
| large-scale       | LLMs | for effectiveness, |     |     | which  | sacri- |          |             |     |           |     |          |
| ----------------- | ---- | ------------------ | --- | --- | ------ | ------ | -------- | ----------- | --- | --------- | --- | -------- |
|                   |      |                    |     |     |        |        | feedback | for logical |     | reasoning | and | theorem- |
| fices efficiency. |      | As observed        |     | by  | Madaan | et al. |          |             |     |           |     |          |
proofgeneration.
| (2023), | smaller | models | often | falter | in  | refining, |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | ------- | ------ | ----- | ------ | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
even with correct feedback. A possible solution • ExternalKnowledgeisusedtoensurefactual
| involves   | explicitly | training | models |     | for this   | self- |          |        |         |        |      |         |
| ---------- | ---------- | -------- | ------ | --- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | ------ | ------- | ------ | ---- | ------- |
|            |            |          |        |     |            |       | accuracy | of the | output. | Models | like | RARR    |
| correction | process.   | SelFee   | (Ye    | et  | al., 2023) | pro-  |          |        |         |        |      |         |
|            |            |          |        |     |            |       | (Gao et  | al.,   | 2023b), | REFEED | (Yu  | et al., |
posestrainingamodeltoemulatetheself-correction
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 2023), | and LLM-Augmenter |     |     | (Peng | et al., |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | ----------------- | --- | --- | ----- | ------- |
process by generating output, feedback, and a re- 2023)promptLLMstoquestiontheiroutputs.
finedsolutioninanauto-regressivemanner.They
|          |          |      |     |         |          |     | An external    | retriever |       | then    | searches  | for rele- |
| -------- | -------- | ---- | --- | ------- | -------- | --- | -------------- | --------- | ----- | ------- | --------- | --------- |
| use more | powerful | LLMs | to  | provide | feedback |     |                |           |       |         |           |           |
|          |          |      |     |         |          |     | vant evidence, |           | which | is used | to refine | out-      |
and refinement data, with data collection facili- puts.FACTOOL(Chernetal.,2023)extends
tatedthroughChatGPT.
|              |     |              |     |                     |     |     | this approach |      | to a wider  | range        | of  | tasks, in- |
| ------------ | --- | ------------ | --- | ------------------- | --- | --- | ------------- | ---- | ----------- | ------------ | --- | ---------- |
|              |     |              |     |                     |     |     | cluding       | code | generation, | mathematical |     | rea-       |
| Models/Tools |     | as Feedback. |     | In self-correction, |     |     |               |      |             |              |     |            |
soning,andscientificliteraturereview.
| the quality | of  | the feedback | is  | constrained |     | by the |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | --- | ------------ | --- | ----------- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
•
inherentlimitationsofLLMs,suchastheinability TrainedModel.Researchhasfine-tunedspe-
to access up-to-date information, take actions, or cializedcriticmodelstoprovidefeedbackfor
perform precise mathematical reasoning. To en- iterative refinement alongside more power-
hancefeedbackquality,recentresearchleverages ful language models. For example, CodeRL
external tools, as shown in Figure 4(b). These (Le et al., 2022) treats program synthesis
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as a reinforcement learning task and trains ity, Fu et al. (2023) mimicked real-world human
a critic model whose output optimizes the interactions, like a buyer-seller scenario, show-
main model. REFINER (Paul et al., 2023) casingtheversatilityofmulti-agentdebates.
usesacritiquemodeltoprovidefeedbackon
| an intermediate |     | representation, |     | suitable | for |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------- | --- | --------------- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
4 Discussion
| refining | larger | models    | like    | ChatGPT. | Simi-    |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | ------ | --------- | ------- | -------- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| larly,   | RL4F   | (Akyu¨rek | et al., | 2023)    | trains a |     |     |     |     |     |     |
4.1 PriorResearchonAutomatedCorrection
criticviareinforcementlearning,fine-tuning
|     |     |     |     |     |     | In our survey, |     | we primarily | examine |     | the auto- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- | ------------ | ------- | --- | --------- |
itwithpolicyoptimization.Theeffectiveness
is gauged by comparing the refined output’s mated correction strategies in the era of modern
accuracytogroundtruth.Inadversarialcon- large language models. However, the idea of
‘‘correctingthemodelwithautomatedfeedback’’
texts,feedbackfromcontentfilterscanguide
the generation of better adversarial exam- has been a longstanding practice in diverse NLP
ples, like how FLIRT (Mehrabi et al., 2023) tasks. Recognizing these early works provides a
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| leverages      | image       | classifier  |     | signals | to guide |            |          |              |      |              |            |
| -------------- | ----------- | ----------- | --- | ------- | -------- | ---------- | -------- | ------------ | ---- | ------------ | ---------- |
|                |             |             |     |         |          | correction | methods  | within       | NLP. | Next,        | we briefly |
| LLMs           | in creating | adversarial |     | prompts | for      |            |          |              |      |              |            |
| auditpurposes. |             |             |     |         |          | discuss    | the NLP  | applications |      | where        | automated  |
|                |             |             |     |         |          | correction | has been | effectively  |      | implemented, | and        |
•
Integrating Multiple Tools. Broadening the we discuss how these early works link to the
ideaoftool-assistedfeedback,CRITIC (Gou automated correction strategies defined in this
| et al., | 2023) | unifies | various | tools, | such as |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | ----- | ------- | ------- | ------ | ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
survey.
| code | interpreters, | search | engines, |     | and LLM |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---- | ------------- | ------ | -------- | --- | ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
feedback, offering a multifaceted feedback MachineTranslation. Theconceptofpost-hoc
approach.
|     |     |     |     |     |     | self-correction   | has          | deep roots | in    | the field   | of ma-  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ----- | ----------- | ------- |
|     |     |     |     |     |     | chine translation |              | (MT),      | where | it is often | called  |
|     |     |     |     |     |     | Automatic         | Post-Editing | (APE)      |       | (do Carmo   | et al., |
3.4 Multi-AgentDebate
|     |     |     |     |     |     | 2021). A | long | line of prior | work | trains | models |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | ---- | ------------- | ---- | ------ | ------ |
Besidesintegratingtools,recentresearchhasalso to fix translation errors by either learning from
explored the debate approach among multiple human correction data (Alabau et al., 2014) or
LLMs, inspired by the idea that multiple per- from synthetic training data (Lee et al., 2021).
spectives can converge to an improved solution. To minimize the cost of data collection, recent
Multiple LLM instances debate their individ- work(Chenetal.,2023d;Raunaketal.,2023)has
ual answers over several rounds, aiming for a leveragedthein-contextlearningabilityofLLMs
consensus. for post-editing translations. As well as post-hoc
Duetal.(2023)trialedthisinarithmeticreason- methods, training-time correction (Unanue et al.,
ing.Agents,orLLMduplicates,presentindividual 2021)anddecoding-timecorrection(Freitagetal.,
solutions and justifications. In the debate phase, 2022)arealsoadoptedbypriorworks.
theseresponsesareaggregatedandusedascontext
| for each agent | to  | revise its | original | answer. | After | Summarization. |     |          |     |           |       |
| -------------- | --- | ---------- | -------- | ------- | ----- | -------------- | --- | -------- | --- | --------- | ----- |
|                |     |            |          |         |       |                |     | The idea | of  | automated | model |
several iterations, they typically reach a consen- correction has been commonly used in summa-
sus, showing superior performance compared to rization to ensure the factuality of the generated
PRD
self-correction. (Li et al., 2023c) furthered summary. There are two mainstream methods:
this by introducing the peer rank algorithm to 1)training-timecorrectionthatimposesfactuality
optimizetheconsensusprocess.Itconsiderspair- constraints during training (Liu and Liu, 2021;
wisepreferencesbetweenallpossibleanswerpairs WanandBansal,2022;Scheureretal.,2023),and
fromindividualLLMsandusesthesepreferences 2) post-hoc correction that post-edits generated
togenerateafinalrankingofmodels. summaries to correct factual errors (Falke et al.,
In addition to reasoning tasks, LM vs LM 2019;Caoetal.,2020;Saundersetal.,2022).Re-
(Cohen et al., 2023) employed this debate ap- centworkhasinvestigatedusing RLtorefinethe
proach for factual error detection, where a gener- modelguidedbyautomatedfeedbackfromeither
atingLLMmakesaclaimandanexaminingLLM rewardmodels(Akyu¨reketal.,2023)orlanguage
checks for inaccuracies. Extending its applicabil- models(Pangetal.,2023).
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Semantic Parsing. The use of external feed- Hong et al., 2023; Tyen et al., 2023; Valmeekam
backinsemanticparsing,particularlyforText-to- et al., 2023; Ke et al., 2023). Most findings in-
SQL tasks, has shown significant effectiveness. dicate that LLMs struggle to rectify their initial
Execution-guided semantic parsing is a notable mistakes,andtheirperformanceevenworsensaf-
approachwherethefeedbackfromexecutingpar- ter self-correction. This issue arises because the
tial SQL queries guides the search for plausible quality of the model’s self-generated feedback is
complete SQL programs. Additionally, earlier bounded by its existing knowledge and abilities.
works also explored training separate discrimi- Therefore, internal feedback may not offer any
nativemodelseithertorerankthegeneratedSQL extraadvantageforimprovingtheresults;itmight
queries (Bogin et al., 2019; Kelkar et al., 2020) even steer the model away from the correct an-
ortopredictspecificSQLcomponents(Xuetal., swer.Preventingsuchmis-guidanceiscrucialfor
2017; Yu et al., 2018; Lee, 2019). The effective- successfulself-correction(Huangetal.,2023).
ness of these generation-time correction tech- In contrast, the use of external feedback for
niquesislargelyattributabletotheeaseofdefining automated correction has shown more promise.
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intermediatefeedbackinsemanticparsing. Numerous studies (Pan et al., 2023; Chen et al.,
2023a;Gouetal.,2023;Huangetal.,2023)report
Proof Generation. Automated correction has positive outcomes when LLMs leverage high-
beenwellstudiedandimplementedforproofgen-
qualityfeedbackfromexternalsources.However,
| eration | (Saha | et al., | 2020; | Tafjord | et  | al., 2021). |              |          |     |          |     |             |     |
| ------- | ----- | ------- | ----- | ------- | --- | ----------- | ------------ | -------- | --- | -------- | --- | ----------- | --- |
|         |       |         |       |         |     |             | high-quality | external |     | feedback | is  | unavailable | in  |
External feedback from natural language infer- manyreal-worldapplications.Thisconstraintnar-
ence(NLI)arecommonlyusedtospoterrorsasa
|           |     |             |     |      |       |          | rows down | the | scope | of automated |     | correction | to  |
| --------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ---- | ----- | -------- | --------- | --- | ----- | ------------ | --- | ---------- | --- |
| heuristic | for | correction, | and | as a | means | to score |           |     |       |              |     |            |     |
onlythosetaskswherepreciseandreadilyobtain-
| the quality | (Yang | et  | al., 2022a; | Golovneva |     | et al., |               |     |          |         |      |               |     |
| ----------- | ----- | --- | ----------- | --------- | --- | ------- | ------------- | --- | -------- | ------- | ---- | ------------- | --- |
|             |       |     |             |           |     |         | able external |     | feedback | exists, | such | as arithmetic |     |
2023). However, there are some open questions reasoning,semanticparsing,andcodegeneration.
| regarding | the | quality | of  | NLI-based |     | feedback |     |           |       |     |       |        |        |
| --------- | --- | ------- | --- | --------- | --- | -------- | --- | --------- | ----- | --- | ----- | ------ | ------ |
|           |     |         |     |           |     |          | The | empirical | study | by  | Huang | et al. | (2023) |
(SrikanthandRudinger,2022;Saxonetal.,2023).
|            |         |             |     |          |         |            | highlighted | multi-agent   |             | debate     | as        | an effective |       |
| ---------- | ------- | ----------- | --- | -------- | ------- | ---------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ---------- | --------- | ------------ | ----- |
|            |         |             |     |          |         |            | method      | for automated |             | correction | in        | LLMs.        | How-  |
| Open-Ended |         | Generation. |     | Post-hoc |         | correction |             |               |             |            |           |              |       |
|            |         |             |     |          |         |            | ever, the   | observed      | improvement |            | primarily |              | stems |
| is often   | adopted | to improve  |     | the      | quality | of open-   |             |               |             |            |           |              |       |
fromthemodel-drivenvotingprocessamongdif-
| ended     | text       | generation | (Wang         |     | et        | al., 2017;  |               |          |            |          |          |                  |     |
| --------- | ---------- | ---------- | ------------- | --- | --------- | ----------- | ------------- | -------- | ---------- | -------- | -------- | ---------------- | --- |
|           |            |            |               |     |           |             | ferent LLMs,  |          | rather     | than     | from     | self-correction. |     |
| Holtzman  | et         | al., 2018; | Sagarkar      |     | et        | al., 2018), |               |          |            |          |          |                  |     |
|           |            |            |               |     |           |             | This approach |          | represents | another  |          | successful       | in- |
| such as   | correcting | toxic      | outputs,      |     | enhancing | the         |               |          |            |          |          |                  |     |
|           |            |            |               |     |           |             | stance of     | learning | through    |          | external | feedback,        | as  |
| narrative | quality    | in story   | generation,   |     | and       | refining    |               |          |            |          |          |                  |     |
|           |            |            |               |     |           |             | each LLM      | benefits |            | from the | input    | provided         | by  |
| response  | generation |            | in dialogues. |     | For       | example,    |               |          |            |          |          |                  |     |
otherLLMsinthedebate.
| Holtzman  | et  | al. (2018) | proposed    |     | a                | framework |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | --- | ---------- | ----------- | --- | ---------------- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| to refine | the | generic,   | repetitive, |     | and inconsistent |           |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
5 ResearchGapsandFutureDirections
textsbycomposingacommitteeofdiscriminators
to provide multi-aspect feedback. Given the sub- 5.1 TheoreticalJustifications
| jectivity | involved | in      | assessing | the           | outputs, | recent   |            |              |          |      |                  |          |       |
| --------- | -------- | ------- | --------- | ------------- | -------- | -------- | ---------- | ------------ | -------- | ---- | ---------------- | -------- | ----- |
|           |          |         |           |               |          |          | First of   | all, whether |          | LLMs | can self-correct |          | with- |
| works     | started  | to use  | detailed, | natural       |          | language |            |              |          |      |                  |          |       |
|           |          |         |           |               |          |          | out any    | external     | feedback | is   | still an         | ongoing  | de-   |
| feedback  | and      | utilize | LLMs      | for iterative |          | post-hoc |            |              |          |      |                  |          |       |
|           |          |         |           |               |          |          | bate, with | both         | positive | and  | negative         | outcomes |       |
refinement.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | reported.            | Numerous |       | studies | have     | discovered |         |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------------- | -------- | ----- | ------- | -------- | ---------- | ------- |
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | that self-correction |          | often | brings  | negative |            | effects |
4.2 WhenDoesAutomated
(Huangetal.,2023;Tyenetal.,2023),whilesome
CorrectionWork?
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | research | indicates | that | the | effectiveness |     | of self- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | --------- | ---- | --- | ------------- | --- | -------- |
Despite the relative infancy of this emerging repair is only seen in GPT-4 (Olausson et al.,
field, recent studies have explored the efficacy 2023). Although these empirical studies provide
of automated correction in LLMs. Notably, in- valuable insights, more fundamental theoretical
trinsic self-correction—where the model cor- research is needed to gain a mechanistic under-
rects its initial output based solely on its inherent standing of self-correction. Key research ques-
capabilities—has generally shown disappointing tions include: Can LLMs truly recognize their
results (Huang et al., 2023; Stechly et al., 2023; own errors without external feedback? What is
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the upper bound of intrinsic self-correction? An- can enhance themselves through self-training on
swerstothosequestionsmightcloselyassociated positivelyevaluatedoutputs,theyoftenfocusona
with LLMs’ capacity to exhibit metacognitive single,one-timecorrectionprocess.Theresilience
awareness, i.e., their understanding of their own of this self-training in continuous settings is not
knowledge and uncertainties (Kadavath et al., well-understood. Continual learning poses chal-
2022). The concept of calibration—how well a lenges like catastrophic forgetting (Kirkpatrick
model’s predictions match observed outcomes— et al., 2016), where new skills impair old ones.
isalsocrucial(Linetal.,2023). It’s uncertain if such issues could plague con-
While language models demonstrate some tinually self-improving LLMs, e.g., correcting
capacityforself-feedback,achievingsuperiorper- one behavior may unintentionally alter a previ-
formanceoftennecessitatesincorporatingexternal ouslycorrectedbehavior.Combiningvariousself-
feedback. This ties into the alignment of lan- correction techniques for continual improvement
guage models, an area still not fully understood. also warrants exploration. Integrating immediate
For example, in RLHF, the choice of the metric post-hoccorrectionswithlong-cycletraining-time
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to minimize between the reward model output corrections—using the former to gather data
and the final model output significantly impacts and the latter to periodically address recurrent
downstream task performance (Go et al., 2023), problems—couldbeapromisingapproach.
| yet this      | aspect remains | underexplored |      | in       | many |                                     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ---- | -------- | ---- | ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|               |                |               |      |          |      | 5.4 Self-CorrectionwithModelEditing |     |     |     |     |
| applications. | Determining    | the           | best | approach | to   |                                     |     |     |     |     |
auto-generate instructive prompts for tasks like Recent advancements in model editing (Sinitsin
outputevaluationisalsoanopenchallenge. et al., 2020; Cao et al., 2021; Yao et al., 2023b)
|     |     |     |     |     |     | aim to adjust | the model’s | behavior | for examples |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | ----------- | -------- | ------------ | --- |
5.2 BenchmarkingAutomatedCorrection within the editing scope while leaving its perfor-
WhileLLMautomatedcorrectionhasseenempir- manceforout-of-scopeexamplesunaltered.Ithas
ical advancements across applications, there is a been applied to update LLMs’ outdated knowl-
lack of solid quantitative metrics to evaluate this edge (Lee et al., 2022; Onoe et al., 2023) and
capability. Comprehensive evaluations comparing address false associations (Murty et al., 2022;
various strategies on criteria like effectiveness, Tannoetal.,2022).Thougheffectiveinadjusting
complexity, and potential limits are still needed. LLMs’factualknowledge,challengeslikelimited
Future studies could develop evaluation frame- generalization(Yaoetal.,2023b)andunintended
works considering variables such as task com- side effects persist (Hoelscher-Obermaier et al.,
| plexity, | degree of initial | error, | improvement |     | in  | 2023). |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | ----------------- | ------ | ----------- | --- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- |
qualityafterautomatedcorrection,etc. We believe model editing offers great poten-
Setting benchmarks to diagnose automated tial for LLM self-correction. It enables accurate,
correction is another potential research avenue. fine-grained corrections without full-scale re-
Diagnosticdatasetswouldofferstandardizedeval- training. Analyzing the impact of these model
uations of LLMs and their correction strategies, edits could yield insights into self-correction.
fosteringthedevelopmentofmoreprecisemodels. Techniques mitigating model editing’s side ef-
|     |     |     |     |     |     | fects (Hoelscher-Obermaier |     | et al., | 2023) | may |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------------------- | --- | ------- | ----- | --- |
5.3 ContinualSelf-Improvement
|     |     |     |     |     |     | also enhance | self-correction. | We  | anticipate | fu- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------ | ---------------- | --- | ---------- | --- |
Another promising yet under-explored area of tureresearchtoincreasinglymergemodelediting
LLM self-correction is the idea of continual, with LLM self-correction, a relatively untouched
| life-long | self-improvement. |     | As LLMs | are | inte- |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ----------------- | --- | ------- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
domain.
| grated into | varied and    | evolving     | scenarios, |     | their |                                |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --- | ----- | ------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|             |               |              |            |     |       | 5.5 Multi-modalSelf-Correction |     |     |     |     |
| capacity    | for sustained | adaptability | becomes    |     | cru-  |                                |     |     |     |     |
cial. This mirrors the notion of continual (life- Self-correction strategies have been well-tested
long) learning (Wang et al., 2023c), suggesting on the textual modality, where both the model
LLMs should consistently assess outputs, rectify outputsandthefeedbackareintextualform.The
mistakes,updateknowledge,andadjustdecision- recentsurgeinmulti-modaldatausage,including
| making. |     |     |     |     |     | image,audio,andvideomodalities,presentsentic- |     |     |     |     |
| ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
While recent studies like Huang et al. (2022) ingopportunitiesforexpansion.Theseincludethe
and Zelikman et al. (2022) indicate that LLMs exploration of self-correction capabilities within
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| 6 Conclusion |        |            |     |               |     |      | pages        | 25–28.            | The                     | Association |             | for Computer |         |
|              |        |            |     |               |     |      | Linguistics. |                   | https://doi.org/10.3115 |             |             |              |         |
| In this      | paper, | we present | a   | comprehensive |     | sur- | /v1/E14-2007 |                   |                         |             |             |              |         |
veyofself-correctinglargelanguagemodelswith
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| ------------ | --------- | --------------- | --- | ----------- | --------- | ---- | ------ | ------- | ---- | ------ | ----- | --------- | -------- |
| automated    | feedback. |                 | We  | categorize  | and       | ana- |        |         |      |        |       |           |          |
|              |           |                 |     |             |           |      | Amanda | Askell, | Anna | Chen,  | Nova  | DasSarma, |          |
| lyze various |           | self-correction |     | strategies, | including |      |        |         |      |        |       |           |          |
training-time, generation-time, and post-hoc cor- Dawn Drain, Stanislav Fort, Deep Ganguli,
|           |     |              |                |      |           |       | Tom       | Henighan, |     | Nicholas | Joseph, |     | Saurav   |
| --------- | --- | ------------ | -------------- | ---- | --------- | ----- | --------- | --------- | --- | -------- | ------- | --- | -------- |
| rections. | We  | also connect | recent         | work | with      | prior |           |           |     |          |         |     |          |
|           |     |              |                |      |           |       | Kadavath, | Jackson   |     | Kernion, |         | Tom | Conerly, |
| research  | and | discuss      | the applicable |      | scenarios | for   |           |           |     |          |         |     |          |
automatedcorrection.Finally,weoutlinefivepo- Sheer El Showk, Nelson Elhage, Zac Hatfield-
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inthisfield.Ourgoalwiththispaperistoprovide
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| a comprehensive |     | and | useful | resource | for | readers |        |           |         |     |       |         |     |
interested in the development of this rapidly B.Brown, JackClark,SamMcCandlish,Chris
|               |         |         |         |              |      |        | Olah,  | Benjamin | Mann, |         | and | Jared    | Kaplan. |
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| evolving      | domain. | To      | aid in  | this effort, | we   | create |        |          |       |         |     |          |         |
|               |         |         |         |              |      |        | 2022a. | Training | a     | helpful | and | harmless | assis-  |
| a continually |         | updated | reading | list         | in a | GitHub |        |          |       |         |     |          |         |
repository as follows: https://github.com tant with reinforcement learning from human
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| -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | ------ | --------- | --- | -------- | --- | ------ |
AmandaAskell,JacksonKernion,AndyJones,
| Acknowledgments |     |     |     |     |     |     | Anna    | Chen,     | Anna | Goldie, | Azalia | Mirhoseini, |     |
| --------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --------- | ---- | ------- | ------ | ----------- | --- |
|                 |     |     |     |     |     |     | Cameron | McKinnon, |      | Carol   | Chen,  | Catherine   |     |
This work was supported by the National Sci- Olsson, Christopher Olah, Danny Hernandez,
ence Foundation (award #2048122). The views Dawn Drain, Deep Ganguli, Dustin Li, Eli
| expressed | are | those | of the | authors | and | do not |               |     |       |        |       |       |       |
| --------- | --- | ----- | ------ | ------- | --- | ------ | ------------- | --- | ----- | ------ | ----- | ----- | ----- |
|           |     |       |        |         |     |        | Tran-Johnson, |     | Ethan | Perez, | Jamie | Kerr, | Jared |
reflect the official policy or position of the US Mueller,JeffreyLadish,JoshuaLandau,Kamal
government. Thanks to Xinyuan Lu for assisting Ndousse, Kamile Lukosiute, Liane Lovitt,
withtheGithubreadinglistrepo. Michael Sellitto, Nelson Elhage, Nicholas
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | Schiefer, | Noem´ı   | Mercado, |     | Nova    | DasSarma, |         |
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