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title = "Language Models are Alignable Decision-Makers: Dataset and Application to the Medical Triage Domain",
author = "Hu, Brian and
Ray, Bill and
Leung, Alice and
Summerville, Amy and
Joy, David and
Funk, Christopher and
Basharat, Arslan",
editor = "Yang, Yi and
Davani, Aida and
Sil, Avi and
Kumar, Anoop",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 6: Industry Track)",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-industry.18/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-industry.18",
pages = "213--227",
abstract = "In difficult decision-making scenarios, it is common to have conflicting opinions among expert human decision-makers as there may not be a single right answer. Such decisions may be guided by different attributes that can be used to characterize an individual`s decision. We introduce a novel dataset for medical triage decision-making, labeled with a set of decision-maker attributes (DMAs). This dataset consists of 62 scenarios, covering six different DMAs, including ethical principles such as fairness and moral desert. We present a novel software framework for human-aligned decision-making by utilizing these DMAs, paving the way for trustworthy AI with better guardrails. Specifically, we demonstrate how large language models (LLMs) can serve as ethical decision-makers, and how their decisions can be aligned to different DMAs using zero-shot prompting. Our experiments focus on different open-source models with varying sizes and training techniques, such as Falcon, Mistral, and Llama 2. Finally, we also introduce a new form of weighted self-consistency that improves the overall quantified performance. Our results provide new research directions in the use of LLMs as alignable decision-makers. The dataset and open-source software are publicly available at: https://github.com/ITM-Kitware/llm-alignable-dm."
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%A Hu, Brian
%A Ray, Bill
%A Leung, Alice
%A Summerville, Amy
%A Joy, David
%A Funk, Christopher
%A Basharat, Arslan
%Y Yang, Yi
%Y Davani, Aida
%Y Sil, Avi
%Y Kumar, Anoop
%S Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 6: Industry Track)
%D 2024
%8 June
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Markdown (Informal)
[Language Models are Alignable Decision-Makers: Dataset and Application to the Medical Triage Domain](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-industry.18/) (Hu et al., NAACL 2024)
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