Optimizing Factual Accuracy in Text Generation through Dynamic Knowledge
  Selection
Hongjin Qian Zhicheng Dou Jiejun Tan Haonan Chen Haoqi Gu Ruofei Lai Xinyu Zhang Zhao Cao Ji-Rong Wen
Language models (LMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with
information, but they often generate nonfactual text, raising concerns about
their reliability. Previous methods use external knowledge as references for
text generation to enhance factuality but often struggle with the knowledge
mix-up(e.g., entity mismatch) of irrelevant references. Besides,as the length
of the output text grows, the randomness of sampling can escalate,
detrimentally impacting the factual accuracy of the generated text. In this
paper, we present DKGen, which divide the text generation process into an
iterative process. In each iteration, DKGen takes the input query, the
previously generated text and a subset of the reference passages as input to
generate short text. During the process, the subset is dynamically selected
from the full passage set based on their relevance to the previously generated
text and the query, largely eliminating the irrelevant references from input.
To further enhance DKGen's ability to correctly use these external knowledge,
DKGen distills the relevance order of reference passages to the cross-attention
distribution of decoder. We train and evaluate DKGen on a large-scale benchmark
dataset. Experiment results show that DKGen outperforms all baseline models.