@inproceedings{muscato-etal-2024-overview,
    title = "An Overview of Recent Approaches to Enable Diversity in Large Language Models through Aligning with Human Perspectives",
    author = "Muscato, Benedetta  and
      Mala, Chandana Sree  and
      Marchiori Manerba, Marta  and
      Gezici, Gizem  and
      Giannotti, Fosca",
    editor = "Abercrombie, Gavin  and
      Basile, Valerio  and
      Bernadi, Davide  and
      Dudy, Shiran  and
      Frenda, Simona  and
      Havens, Lucy  and
      Tonelli, Sara",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlperspectives-1.5",
    pages = "49--55",
    abstract = "The varied backgrounds and experiences of human annotators inject different opinions and potential biases into the data, inevitably leading to disagreements. Yet, traditional aggregation methods fail to capture individual judgments since they rely on the notion of a single ground truth. Our aim is to review prior contributions to pinpoint the shortcomings that might cause stereotypical content generation. As a preliminary study, our purpose is to investigate state-of-the-art approaches, primarily focusing on the following two research directions. First, we investigate how adding subjectivity aspects to LLMs might guarantee diversity. We then look into the alignment between humans and LLMs and discuss how to measure it. Considering existing gaps, our review explores possible methods to mitigate the perpetuation of biases targeting specific communities. However, we recognize the potential risk of disseminating sensitive information due to the utilization of socio-demographic data in the training process. These considerations underscore the inclusion of diverse perspectives while taking into account the critical importance of implementing robust safeguards to protect individuals{'} privacy and prevent the inadvertent propagation of sensitive information.",
}

The varied backgrounds and experiences of human annotators inject different opinions and potential biases into the data, inevitably leading to disagreements. Yet, traditional aggregation methods fail to capture individual judgments since they rely on the notion of a single ground truth. Our aim is to review prior contributions to pinpoint the shortcomings that might cause stereotypical content generation. As a preliminary study, our purpose is to investigate state-of-the-art approaches, primarily focusing on the following two research directions. First, we investigate how adding subjectivity aspects to LLMs might guarantee diversity. We then look into the alignment between humans and LLMs and discuss how to measure it. Considering existing gaps, our review explores possible methods to mitigate the perpetuation of biases targeting specific communities. However, we recognize the potential risk of disseminating sensitive information due to the utilization of socio-demographic data in the training process. These considerations underscore the inclusion of diverse perspectives while taking into account the critical importance of implementing robust safeguards to protect individuals{'} privacy and prevent the inadvertent propagation of sensitive information.
Muscato, Benedetta Mala, Ch ana Sree Marchiori Manerba, Marta Gezici, Gizem Giannotti, Fosca
An Overview of Recent Approaches to Enable Diversity in Large Language Models through Aligning with Human Perspectives