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(lizy@iaar.ac.cn)\n  \u003c/small\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003e [!IMPORTANT]\n\u003e - Consider giving our repository a 🌟, so you will receive the latest news (paper list updates, new comments, etc.);  \n\u003e - If you want to cite our work, here is our bibtex entry: [CITATION.bib](./CITATION.bib).\n\n## 📰 News\n\n- **2024/10/26** We have created a relevant [WeChat Group (微信群)](https://github.com/IAAR-Shanghai/ICSFSurvey/releases/tag/v3.2) for discussing reasoning and hallucination in LLMs.\n- **2024/09/18** [Paper v3.0](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14507) and a relevant [Twitter thread](https://x.com/Ki_Seki_here/status/1836020241538908529).\n- **2024/08/24** Updated paper list for better user experience. [Link](#-paper-list). Ongoing updates.\n- **2024/07/22** Our paper ranks first on Hugging Face Daily Papers! [Link](https://huggingface.co/papers?date=2024-07-22).\n- **2024/07/21** Our paper is now available on arXiv. [Link](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14507).\n\n## 🎉 Introduction\n\nWelcome to the GitHub repository for our survey paper titled *\"Internal Consistency and Self-Feedback in Large Language Models: A Survey.\"* The survey's goal is to provide a unified perspective on the self-evaluation and self-updating mechanisms in LLMs, encapsulated within the frameworks of Internal Consistency and Self-Feedback. \n\n![](./assets/poster.png)\n\nThis repository includes three key resources:\n- [expt-consistency-types](./expt-consistency-types/): Code and results for measuring consistency at different levels.\n- [expt-gpt4o-responses](./expt-gpt4o-responses/): Results from five different GPT-4o responses to the same query.\n- [Paper List](./README.md#-paper-list): A comprehensive list of references related to our survey.\n\n\u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eClick Me to Show the Table of Contents\u003c/summary\u003e\n\n- [📰 News](#-news)\n- [🎉 Introduction](#-introduction)\n- [📚 Paper List](#-paper-list)\n  - [Related Survey Papers](#related-survey-papers)\n  - [Section IV: Consistency Signal Acquisition](#section-iv-consistency-signal-acquisition)\n    - [Confidence Estimation](#confidence-estimation)\n    - [Hallucination Detection](#hallucination-detection)\n    - [Uncertainty Estimation](#uncertainty-estimation)\n    - [Verbal Critiquing](#verbal-critiquing)\n    - [Faithfulness Measurement](#faithfulness-measurement)\n    - [Consistency Estimation](#consistency-estimation)\n  - [Section V: Reasoning Elevation](#section-v-reasoning-elevation)\n    - [Reasoning Topologically](#reasoning-topologically)\n    - [Refining with Responses](#refining-with-responses)\n    - [Multi-Agent Collaboration](#multi-agent-collaboration)\n  - [Section VI: Hallucination Alleviation](#section-vi-hallucination-alleviation)\n    - [Mitigating Hallucination while Generating](#mitigating-hallucination-while-generating)\n    - [Refining the Response Iteratively](#refining-the-response-iteratively)\n    - [Activating Truthfulness](#activating-truthfulness)\n    - [Decoding Truthfully](#decoding-truthfully)\n  - [Section VII: Other Tasks](#section-vii-other-tasks)\n    - [Preference Learning](#preference-learning)\n    - [Knowledge Distillation](#knowledge-distillation)\n    - [Continuous Learning](#continuous-learning)\n    - [Data Synthesis](#data-synthesis)\n    - [Consistency Optimization](#consistency-optimization)\n    - [Decision Making](#decision-making)\n    - [Event Argument Extraction](#event-argument-extraction)\n    - [Inference Acceleration](#inference-acceleration)\n    - [Machine Translation](#machine-translation)\n    - [Negotiation Optimization](#negotiation-optimization)\n    - [Retrieval Augmented Generation](#retrieval-augmented-generation)\n    - [Text Classification](#text-classification)\n    - [Self-Repair](#self-repair)\n  - [Section VIII.A: Meta Evaluation](#section-viiia-meta-evaluation)\n    - [Consistency Evaluation](#consistency-evaluation)\n    - [Self-Knowledge Evaluation](#self-knowledge-evaluation)\n    - [Uncertainty Evaluation](#uncertainty-evaluation)\n    - [Feedback Ability Evaluation](#feedback-ability-evaluation)\n    - [Reflection Ability Evaluation](#reflection-ability-evaluation)\n  - [Theoretical Perspectives](#theoretical-perspectives)\n- [📝 Citation](#-citation)\n\n\u003c/details\u003e\n\n## 📚 Paper List\n\nHere we list the most important references cited in our survey, as well as the papers we consider worth noting. **This list will be updated regularly.**\n\n### Related Survey Papers\n\nThese are some of the most relevant surveys related to our paper.\n\n- **A Survey on the Honesty of Large Language Models**  \n  CUHK, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.18786)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/SihengLi99/LLM-Honesty-Survey)]\n\n- **Awesome LLM Reasoning**  \n  NTU, GitHub, 2024\n  [[Code](https://github.com/atfortes/Awesome-LLM-Reasoning)]\n\n- **Awesome LLM Strawberry**  \n  NVIDIA, GitHub, 2024\n  [[Code](https://github.com/hijkzzz/Awesome-LLM-Strawberry)]\n\n- **Extrinsic Hallucinations in LLMs**  \n  OpenAI, Blog, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2024-07-07-hallucination/#sampling-based-detection)]\n\n- **When Can LLMs Actually Correct Their Own Mistakes? A Critical Survey of Self-Correction of LLMs**  \n  PSU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01297)]\n\n- **A Survey on Self-Evolution of Large Language Models**  \n  PKU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14387)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/AlibabaResearch/DAMO-ConvAI/tree/main/Awesome-Self-Evolution-of-LLM)]\n\n- **Demystifying Chains, Trees, and Graphs of Thoughts**  \n  ETH, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14295)]\n\n- **Automatically Correcting Large Language Models: Surveying the Landscape of Diverse Automated Correction Strategies**  \n  UCSB, TACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.tacl-1.27/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/teacherpeterpan/self-correction-llm-papers)]\n\n- **Uncertainty in Natural Language Processing: Sources, Quantification, and Applications**  \n  Nankai, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04459)]\n\n### Section IV: Consistency Signal Acquisition\n\nFor various forms of expressions from an LLM, we can obtain various forms of consistency signals, which can help in better updating the expressions.\n\n#### Confidence Estimation\n\n- **Can LLMs Express Their Uncertainty? An Empirical Evaluation of Confidence Elicitation in LLMs**  \n  NUS, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=gjeQKFxFpZ)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/MiaoXiong2320/llm-uncertainty)]\n\n- **Linguistic Calibration of Long-Form Generations**  \n  Stanford, ICML, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32959)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/tatsu-lab/linguistic_calibration)]\n\n- **InternalInspector I2: Robust Confidence Estimation in LLMs through Internal States**  \n  VT, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12053)]\n\n- **Cycles of Thought: Measuring LLM Confidence through Stable Explanations**  \n  UCLA, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03441)]\n\n- **TrustScore: Reference-Free Evaluation of LLM Response Trustworthiness**  \n  UoEdin, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12545)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/dannalily/TrustScore)]\n\n- **Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation**  \n  Oxford, ICLR, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=VD-AYtP0dve)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/lorenzkuhn/semantic_uncertainty)]\n\n- **Quantifying Uncertainty in Answers from any Language Model and Enhancing their Trustworthiness**  \n  UMD, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16175)]\n\n- **Teaching models to express their uncertainty in words**  \n  Oxford, TMLR, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=8s8K2UZGTZ)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/sylinrl/CalibratedMath)]\n\n- **Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know**  \n  Anthropic, arXiv, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221)]\n\n#### Hallucination Detection\n\n- **Investigating Factuality in Long-Form Text Generation: The Roles of Self-Known and Self-Unknown**  \n  Salesforce, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15993)]\n\n- **Prompt-Guided Internal States for Hallucination Detection of Large Language Models**  \n  Nankai, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04847)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/fujie-math/PRISM)]\n\n- **Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy**  \n  Oxford, Nature, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0)]\n\n- **INSIDE: LLMs' Internal States Retain the Power of Hallucination Detection**  \n  Alibaba, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=Zj12nzlQbz)]\n\n- **LLM Internal States Reveal Hallucination Risk Faced With a Query**  \n  HKUST, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03282)]\n\n- **Teaching Large Language Models to Express Knowledge Boundary from Their Own Signals**  \n  Fudan, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10881)]\n\n- **Knowing What LLMs DO NOT Know: A Simple Yet Effective Self-Detection Method**  \n  SDU, NAACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17918)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yukunZhao/Self-DETECTION)]\n\n- **LM vs LM: Detecting Factual Errors via Cross Examination**  \n  TAU, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.778/)]\n\n- **SelfCheckGPT: Zero-Resource Black-Box Hallucination Detection for Generative Large Language Models**  \n  Cambridge, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.557/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/potsawee/selfcheckgpt)]\n\n#### Uncertainty Estimation\n\n- **Enhancing Trust in Large Language Models with Uncertainty-Aware Fine-Tuning**  \n  Intel, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02904)]\n\n- **Semantic Density: Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models through Confidence Measurement in Semantic Space**  \n  Cognizant, NeuIPS, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13845)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/cognizant-ai-labs/semantic-density-paper)]\n\n- **Generating with Confidence: Uncertainty Quantification for Black-box Large Language Models**  \n  UIUC, TMLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=DWkJCSxKU5)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/zlin7/UQ-NLG)]\n\n- **Uncertainty Estimation of Large Language Models in Medical Question Answering**  \n  HKU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08662)]\n\n- **To Believe or Not to Believe Your LLM**  \n  Google, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02543)]\n\n- **Shifting Attention to Relevance: Towards the Uncertainty Estimation of Large Language Models**  \n  DU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01379)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/jinhaoduan/SAR)]\n\n- **Active Prompting with Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Models**  \n  HUST, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12246)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/shizhediao/active-prompt)]\n\n- **Uncertainty Estimation in Autoregressive Structured Prediction**  \n  Yandex, ICLR, 2021\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=jN5y-zb5Q7m)]\n\n- **On Hallucination and Predictive Uncertainty in Conditional Language Generation**  \n  UCSB, EACL, 2021\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.236/)]\n\n#### Verbal Critiquing\n\n- **LLM Critics Help Catch LLM Bugs**  \n  OpenAI, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00215)]\n\n- **Reasons to Reject? Aligning Language Models with Judgments**  \n  Tencent, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14591)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/wwxu21/CUT)]\n\n- **Self-critiquing models for assisting human evaluators**  \n  OpenAI, arXiv, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05802)]\n\n#### Faithfulness Measurement\n\n- **Are self-explanations from Large Language Models faithful?**  \n  Mila, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07927)]\n\n- **On Measuring Faithfulness or Self-consistency of Natural Language Explanations**  \n  UAH, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07466)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/Heidelberg-NLP/CC-SHAP)]\n\n#### Consistency Estimation\n\n- **Semantic Consistency for Assuring Reliability of Large Language Models**  \n  DTU, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09138)]\n\n### Section V: Reasoning Elevation\n\nEnhancing reasoning ability by improving LLM performance on QA tasks through Self-Feedback strategies.\n\n#### Reasoning Topologically\n\n- **SRA-MCTS: Self-driven Reasoning Augmentation with Monte Carlo Tree Search for Code Generation**  \n  BIT, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11053)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/DIRECT-BIT/SRA-MCTS)]\n\n- **Marco-o1: Towards Open Reasoning Models for Open-Ended Solutions**  \n  Alibaba, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14405)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/AIDC-AI/Marco-o1)]\n\n- **Dynamic Self-Consistency: Leveraging Reasoning Paths for Efficient LLM Sampling**  \n  Virginia, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17017)]\n\n- **Decoding on Graphs: Faithful and Sound Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs through Generation of Well-Formed Chains**  \n  CUHK, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18415)]\n\n- **DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into State-of-the-Art Pipelines**  \n  Stanford, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=sY5N0zY5Od)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy)]\n\n- **Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models**  \n  ETH, AAAI, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29720)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/spcl/graph-of-thoughts)]\n\n- **Integrate the Essence and Eliminate the Dross: Fine-Grained Self-Consistency for Free-Form Language Generation**  \n  BIT, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02056)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/WangXinglin/FSC)]\n\n- **Buffer of Thoughts: Thought-Augmented Reasoning with Large Language Models**  \n  PKU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04271)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/YangLing0818/buffer-of-thought-llm)]\n\n- **RATT: A Thought Structure for Coherent and Correct LLM Reasoning**  \n  PSU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02746)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/jinghanzhang1998/RATT)]\n\n- **Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking**  \n  Stanford, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09629)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ezelikman/quiet-star)]\n\n- **Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting**  \n  Google, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10200)]\n\n- **Self-Contrast: Better Reflection Through Inconsistent Solving Perspectives**  \n  ZJU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02009)]\n\n- **Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning**  \n  Google, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12917)]\n\n- **LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them given the error location**  \n  Cambridge, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08516)]\n\n- **Forward-Backward Reasoning in Large Language Models for Mathematical Verification**  \n  SUSTech, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07758)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ws-jiang/fobar-public)]\n\n- **LeanReasoner: Boosting Complex Logical Reasoning with Lean**  \n  JHU, NAACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.416/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/Some-random/theorem-proving-reasoning)]\n\n- **Just Ask One More Time! Self-Agreement Improves Reasoning of Language Models in (Almost) All Scenarios**  \n  Kuaishou, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.230/)]\n\n- **Soft Self-Consistency Improves Language Model Agents**  \n  UNC-CH, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-short.28/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/HanNight/soft_self_consistency)]\n\n- **Self-Evaluation Guided Beam Search for Reasoning**  \n  NUS, NeuIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=Bw82hwg5Q3)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/YuxiXie/SelfEval-Guided-Decoding)]\n\n- **Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models**  \n  Princeton, NeuIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=5Xc1ecxO1h)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/princeton-nlp/tree-of-thought-llm)]\n\n- **Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models**  \n  Google, ICLR, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=1PL1NIMMrw)]\n\n- **DSPy Assertions: Computational Constraints for Self-Refining Language Model Pipelines**  \n  Stanford, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13382)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy)]\n\n- **Universal Self-Consistency for Large Language Model Generation**  \n  Google, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17311)]\n\n- **Enhancing Large Language Models in Coding Through Multi-Perspective Self-Consistency**  \n  PKU, ACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17272)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/skpig/MPSC)]\n\n- **Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution**  \n  Google, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16797)]\n\n- **Demonstrate-Search-Predict: Composing retrieval and language models for knowledge-intensive NLP**  \n  Stanford, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14024)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy)]\n\n- **Making Language Models Better Reasoners with Step-Aware Verifier**  \n  PKU, ACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.291/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/microsoft/DiVeRSe)]\n\n- **Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models**  \n  Google, NeuIPS, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=_VjQlMeSB_J)]\n\n- **Maieutic Prompting: Logically Consistent Reasoning with Recursive Explanations**  \n  Washington, EMNLP, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.82/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/jaehunjung1/Maieutic-Prompting)]\n\n#### Refining with Responses\n\n- **Enhancing LLM Reasoning via Critique Models with Test-Time and Training-Time Supervision**  \n  Fudan, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16579)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/WooooDyy/MathCritique)]\n\n- **SaySelf: Teaching LLMs to Express Confidence with Self-Reflective Rationales**  \n  Purdue, EMNLP, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20974)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/xu1868/SaySelf)]\n\n- **Small Language Models Need Strong Verifiers to Self-Correct Reasoning**  \n  UMich, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.17140)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yunx-z/SCORE)]\n\n- **Fine-Tuning with Divergent Chains of Thought Boosts Reasoning Through Self-Correction in Language Models**  \n  TUDa, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03181)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/UKPLab/arxiv2024-divergent-cot)]\n\n- **Accessing GPT-4 level Mathematical Olympiad Solutions via Monte Carlo Tree Self-refine with LLaMa-3 8B**  \n  Fudan, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07394)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/trotsky1997/MathBlackBox)]\n\n- **Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve by Learning from Language Feedback**  \n  NEU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07168)]\n\n- **Large Language Models Can Self-Improve At Web Agent Tasks**  \n  UPenn, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20309)]\n\n- **Toward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing**  \n  Tencent, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12253)]\n\n- **Can LLMs Learn from Previous Mistakes? Investigating LLMs’ Errors to Boost for Reasoning**  \n  UCSD, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20046)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/YookiTong/Learn-from-Mistakes-CotErrorSet)]\n\n- **Fine-Grained Self-Endorsement Improves Factuality and Reasoning**  \n  XMU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15631)]\n\n- **Mirror: A Multiple-perspective Self-Reflection Method for Knowledge-rich Reasoning**  \n  KCL, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14963)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/hanqi-qi/Mirror)]\n\n- **Self-Alignment for Factuality: Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs via Self-Evaluation**  \n  CUHK, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09267)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/zhangxy-2019/Self-Alignment-for-Factuality)]\n\n- **Self-Rewarding Language Models**  \n  Meta, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10020)]\n\n- **Learning From Mistakes Makes LLM Better Reasoner**  \n  Microsoft, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20689)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/microsoft/LEMA)]\n\n- **Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision**  \n  CMU, NeuIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/0764db1151b936aca59249e2c1386101-Abstract-Conference.html)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/IBM/Dromedary)]\n\n- **Large Language Models Can Self-Improve**  \n  Illinois, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.67/)]\n\n- **Improving Logical Consistency in Pre-Trained Language Models using Natural Language Inference**  \n  Stanford, Stanford CS224N Custom Project, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs224n/cs224n.1224/reports/custom_116994635.pdf)]\n\n- **Enhancing Self-Consistency and Performance of Pre-Trained Language Models through Natural Language Inference**  \n  Stanford, EMNLP, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.115/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/eric-mitchell/concord)]\n\n#### Multi-Agent Collaboration\n\n- **The Consensus Game: Language Model Generation via Equilibrium Search**  \n  MIT, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=n9xeGcI4Yg)]\n\n- **Improving Factuality and Reasoning in Language Models through Multiagent Debate**  \n  MIT, ICML, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/32620)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/composable-models/llm_multiagent_debate)]\n\n- **Scaling Large-Language-Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration**  \n  THU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07155)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/OpenBMB/ChatDev)]\n\n- **AutoAct: Automatic Agent Learning from Scratch for QA via Self-Planning**  \n  ZJU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05268)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/zjunlp/AutoAct)]\n\n- **ReConcile: Round-Table Conference Improves Reasoning via Consensus among Diverse LLMs**  \n  UNC, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13007)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/dinobby/ReConcile)]\n\n- **REFINER: Reasoning Feedback on Intermediate Representations**  \n  EPFL, EACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.67/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/debjitpaul/refiner)]\n\n- **Examining Inter-Consistency of Large Language Models Collaboration: An In-depth Analysis via Debate**  \n  HIT, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.508/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/Waste-Wood/FORD)]\n\n- **Towards CausalGPT: A Multi-Agent Approach for Faithful Knowledge Reasoning via Promoting Causal Consistency in LLMs**  \n  SYSU, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11914)]\n\n### Section VI: Hallucination Alleviation\n\nImproving factual accuracy in open-ended generation and reducing hallucinations through Self-Feedback strategies.\n\n#### Mitigating Hallucination while Generating\n\n- **Self-contradictory Hallucinations of Large Language Models: Evaluation, Detection and Mitigation**  \n  ETH, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=EmQSOi1X2f)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/eth-sri/ChatProtect)]\n\n- **Mitigating Entity-Level Hallucination in Large Language Models**  \n  THU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09417)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/oneal2000/EntityHallucination)]\n\n- **Know the Unknown: An Uncertainty-Sensitive Method for LLM Instruction Tuning**  \n  HKUST, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10099)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/JiaqiLi404/TrustworthyRAG)]\n\n- **Fine-grained Hallucination Detection and Editing for Language Models**  \n  UoW, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06855)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/abhika-m/FAVA)]\n\n- **EVER: Mitigating Hallucination in Large Language Models through Real-Time Verification and Rectification**  \n  UNC, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09114)]\n\n- **Chain-of-Verification Reduces Hallucination in Large Language Models**  \n  Meta, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495)]\n\n- **PURR: Efficiently Editing Language Model Hallucinations by Denoising Language Model Corruptions**  \n  UCI, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14908)]\n\n- **RARR: Researching and Revising What Language Models Say, Using Language Models**  \n  CMU, ACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.910/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/anthonywchen/RARR)]\n\n#### Refining the Response Iteratively\n\n- **An Evolutionary Large Language Model for Hallucination Mitigation**  \n  Salah Boubnider University, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02790)]\n\n- **From Code to Correctness: Closing the Last Mile of Code Generation with Hierarchical Debugging**  \n  SJTU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.01215)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/YerbaPage/MGDebugger)]\n\n- **Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug**  \n  Google, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=KuPixIqPiq)]\n\n- **LLMs can learn self-restraint through iterative self-reflection**  \n  ServiceNow, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13022)]\n\n- **Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning**  \n  Northeastern, NeuIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/1b44b878bb782e6954cd888628510e90-Abstract-Conference.html)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/noahshinn/reflexion)]\n\n- **Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct**  \n  AI2, ICLR, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=hH36JeQZDaO)]\n\n- **MAF: Multi-Aspect Feedback for Improving Reasoning in Large Language Models**  \n  UCSB, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=bNeDLx5O6w)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/deepakn97/MAF)]\n\n- **Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback**  \n  CMU, NeuIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=S37hOerQLB)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/madaan/self-refine)]\n\n- **PEER: A Collaborative Language Model**  \n  Meta, ICLR, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=KbYevcLjnc)]\n\n- **Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision**  \n  Berkeley, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.296/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yangkevin2/emnlp22-re3-story-generation)]\n\n#### Activating Truthfulness\n\n- **Truth Forest: Toward Multi-Scale Truthfulness in Large Language Models through Intervention without Tuning**  \n  BUAA, AAAI, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/30087)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/jongjyh/TrFr)]\n\n- **Look Within, Why LLMs Hallucinate: A Causal Perspective**  \n  NUDT, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10153)]\n\n- **Retrieval Head Mechanistically Explains Long-Context Factuality**  \n  PKU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15574)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/nightdessert/Retrieval_Head)]\n\n- **TruthX: Alleviating Hallucinations by Editing Large Language Models in Truthful Space**  \n  ICT, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17811)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ictnlp/TruthX)]\n\n- **Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model**  \n  Harvard, NeuIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=aLLuYpn83y)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/likenneth/honest_llama)]\n\n- **Fine-tuning Language Models for Factuality**  \n  Stanford, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08401)]\n\n#### Decoding Truthfully\n\n- **Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability**  \n  THU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19943)]\n\n- **Diver: Large Language Model Decoding with Span-Level Mutual Information Verification**  \n  IA, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02120)]\n\n- **SED: Self-Evaluation Decoding Enhances Large Language Models for Better Generation**  \n  FDU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16552)]\n\n- **Enhancing Contextual Understanding in Large Language Models through Contrastive Decoding**  \n  Edin, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02750)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/amazon-science/ContextualUnderstanding-ContrastiveDecoding)]\n\n- **DoLa: Decoding by Contrasting Layers Improves Factuality in Large Language Models**  \n  MIT, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03883)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/voidism/DoLa)]\n\n- **Trusting Your Evidence: Hallucinate Less with Context-aware Decoding**  \n  UoW, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14739)]\n\n- **Contrastive Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation as Optimization**  \n  Stanford, ACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.687/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/XiangLi1999/ContrastiveDecoding)]\n\n### Section VII: Other Tasks\n\nIn addition to tasks aimed at improving consistency (enhancing reasoning and alleviating hallucinations), there are other tasks that also utilize Self-Feedback strategies.\n\n#### Preference Learning\n\n- **Language Imbalance Driven Rewarding for Multilingual Self-improving**  \n  UCAS, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08964)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ZNLP/Language-Imbalance-Driven-Rewarding)]\n\n- **Aligning Large Language Models via Self-Steering Optimization**  \n  ISCAS, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17131)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/icip-cas/SSO)]\n\n- **Meta-Rewarding Language Models: Self-Improving Alignment with LLM-as-a-Meta-Judge**  \n  Meta FAIR, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19594)]\n\n- **Aligning Large Language Models from Self-Reference AI Feedback with one General Principle**  \n  FDU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11190)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/rbao2018/self_ref_feedback)]\n\n- **Aligning Large Language Models with Self-generated Preference Data**  \n  KAIST, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04412)]\n\n- **Self-Alignment of Large Language Models via Monopolylogue-based Social Scene Simulation**  \n  SJTU, PMLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/pang24a.html)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ShuoTang123/MATRIX)]\n\n- **Self-Improving Robust Preference Optimization**  \n  Cohere, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01660)]\n\n- **Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models**  \n  UCLA, PMLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/chen24j.html)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/uclaml/SPIN)]\n\n- **Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment**  \n  UCLA, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00675)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/uclaml/SPPO)]\n\n- **ChatGLM-Math: Improving Math Problem-Solving in Large Language Models with a Self-Critique Pipeline**  \n  Zhipu, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02893)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/THUDM/ChatGLM-Math)]\n\n- **SALMON: Self-Alignment with Instructable Reward Models**  \n  IBM, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05910)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/IBM/SALMON)]\n\n- **Self-Specialization: Uncovering Latent Expertise within Large Language Models**  \n  GT, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.157/)]\n\n- **BeaverTails: Towards Improved Safety Alignment of LLM via a Human-Preference Dataset**  \n  PKU, NeurIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=g0QovXbFw3\u0026noteId=OleVjyinhk)]\n  [[Code](https://sites.google.com/view/pku-beavertails)]\n\n- **Safe RLHF: Safe Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback**  \n  PKU, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12773)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/PKU-Alignment/safe-rlhf)]\n\n- **Aligning Large Language Models through Synthetic Feedback**  \n  NAVER, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13735)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/naver-ai/almost)]\n\n- **OpenAssistant Conversations -- Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment**  \n  Unaffiliated, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07327)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant)]\n\n- **The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models**  \n  Anthropic, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07459)]\n\n- **Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback**  \n  Anthropic, arXiv, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/anthropics/ConstitutionalHarmlessnessPaper)]\n\n- **Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback**  \n  Anthropic, arXiv, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05862)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/anthropics/hh-rlhf)]\n\n#### Knowledge Distillation\n\n- **Beyond Imitation: Leveraging Fine-grained Quality Signals for Alignment**  \n  RUC, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=LNLjU5C5dK)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/RUCAIBox/FIGA)]\n\n- **On-Policy Distillation of Language Models: Learning from Self-Generated Mistakes**  \n  Google, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=3zKtaqxLhW)]\n\n- **Self-Refine Instruction-Tuning for Aligning Reasoning in Language Models**  \n  Idiap, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00402)]\n\n- **Personalized Distillation: Empowering Open-Sourced LLMs with Adaptive Learning for Code Generation**  \n  NTU, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=alxWMBcNVN)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/PersDistill)]\n\n- **SelFee: Iterative Self-Revising LLM Empowered by Self-Feedback Generation**  \n  KAIST, Blog, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://lklab.kaist.ac.kr/SelFee/)]\n\n- **Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling**  \n  Google, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08998)]\n\n- **Impossible Distillation: from Low-Quality Model to High-Quality Dataset \u0026 Model for Summarization and Paraphrasing**  \n  Washington, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16635)]\n\n- **Self-Knowledge Distillation with Progressive Refinement of Targets**  \n  LG, ICCV, 2021\n  [[Paper](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/html/Kim_Self-Knowledge_Distillation_With_Progressive_Refinement_of_Targets_ICCV_2021_paper.html)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/lgcnsai/PS-KD-Pytorch)]\n\n- **Revisiting Knowledge Distillation via Label Smoothing Regularization**  \n  NUS, CVPR, 2020\n  [[Paper](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/html/Yuan_Revisiting_Knowledge_Distillation_via_Label_Smoothing_Regularization_CVPR_2020_paper.html)]\n\n- **Self-Knowledge Distillation in Natural Language Processing**  \n  Handong, RANLP, 2019\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/R19-1050/)]\n\n#### Continuous Learning\n\n- **Self-Tuning: Instructing LLMs to Effectively Acquire New Knowledge through Self-Teaching**  \n  CUHK, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06326)]\n\n- **Self-Evolving GPT: A Lifelong Autonomous Experiential Learner**  \n  HIT, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.346/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ArrogantL/se_gpt)]\n\n#### Data Synthesis\n\n- **Self-Taught Evaluators**  \n   Meta, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02666)]\n\n- **Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions**  \n  Washington, ACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.754/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yizhongw/self-instruct)]\n\n- **Self-training Improves Pre-training for Natural Language Understanding**  \n  Facebook, arXiv, 2020\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02194)]\n\n#### Consistency Optimization\n\n- **Improving the Robustness of Large Language Models via Consistency Alignment**  \n  SDU, LREC-COLING, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.782/)]\n\n#### Decision Making\n\n- **Can Large Language Models Play Games? A Case Study of A Self-Play Approach**  \n  Northwestern, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05632)]\n\n#### Event Argument Extraction\n\n- **ULTRA: Unleash LLMs' Potential for Event Argument Extraction through Hierarchical Modeling and Pair-wise Refinement**  \n  UMich, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.487/)]\n\n#### Inference Acceleration\n\n- **Draft \u0026 Verify: Lossless Large Language Model Acceleration via Self-Speculative Decoding**  \n  ZJU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.607/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/dilab-zju/self-speculative-decoding)]\n\n#### Machine Translation\n\n- **TasTe: Teaching Large Language Models to Translate through Self-Reflection**  \n  HIT, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.333/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/YutongWang1216/ReflectionLLMMT)]\n\n#### Negotiation Optimization\n\n- **Improving Language Model Negotiation with Self-Play and In-Context Learning from AI Feedback**  \n  Edin, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10142)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/FranxYao/GPT-Bargaining)]\n\n#### Retrieval Augmented Generation\n\n- **Improving Retrieval Augmented Language Model with Self-Reasoning**  \n  Baidu, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19813)]\n\n#### Text Classification\n\n- **Text Classification Using Label Names Only: A Language Model Self-Training Approach**  \n  Illinois, EMNLP, 2020\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.724/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yumeng5/LOTClass)]\n\n#### Self-Repair\n\n- **Explorations of Self-Repair in Language Models**  \n  UTexas, PMLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/rushing24a.html)]\n\n### Section VIII.A: Meta Evaluation\n\nSome common evaluation benchmarks.\n\n#### Consistency Evaluation\n\n- **Evaluating Consistencies in LLM responses through a Semantic Clustering of Question Answering**  \n  Dongguk, IJCAI, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15440)]\n\n- **Can Large Language Models Always Solve Easy Problems if They Can Solve Harder Ones?**  \n  PKU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12809)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/QwenLM/ConsisEval)]\n\n- **Cross-Lingual Consistency of Factual Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models**  \n  RUG, EMNLP, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=MLKLYoXypN)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/Betswish/Cross-Lingual-Consistency)]\n\n- **Predicting Question-Answering Performance of Large Language Models through Semantic Consistency**  \n  IBM, GEM, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.gem-1.12/)]\n  [[Code](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm/popqa-tp)]\n\n- **BECEL: Benchmark for Consistency Evaluation of Language Models**  \n  Oxford, Coling, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.324/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/MJ-Jang/BECEL)]\n\n- **Measuring and Improving Consistency in Pretrained Language Models**  \n  BIU, TACL, 2021\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.60/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yanaiela/pararel)]\n\n#### Self-Knowledge Evaluation\n\n- **Can I understand what I create? Self-Knowledge Evaluation of Large Language Models**  \n  THU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06140)]\n\n- **Can AI Assistants Know What They Don't Know?**  \n  Fudan, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13275)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/OpenMOSS/Say-I-Dont-Know)]\n\n- **Do Large Language Models Know What They Don’t Know?**  \n  Fudan, ACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.551/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/yinzhangyue/SelfAware)]\n\n#### Uncertainty Evaluation\n\n- **UBENCH: Benchmarking Uncertainty in Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions**  \n  Nankai, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12784)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/Cyno2232/UBENCH)]\n\n- **Benchmarking LLMs via Uncertainty Quantification**  \n  Tencent, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12794)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/smartyfh/LLM-Uncertainty-Bench)]\n\n#### Feedback Ability Evaluation\n\n- **CriticBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Critique-Correct Reasoning**  \n  THU, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14809)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/CriticBench/CriticBench)]\n\n#### Reflection Ability Evaluation\n\n- **Reflection-Bench: probing AI intelligence with reflection**  \n  SHLab, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03194)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/YabYum/ReflectionBench)]\n\n### Theoretical Perspectives\n\nSome theoretical research on Internal Consistency and Self-Feedback strategies.\n\n- **Think-to-Talk or Talk-to-Think? When LLMs Come Up with an Answer in Multi-Step Reasoning**  \n  Tohoku, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01113)]\n\n- **AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data**  \n  Oxford, Nature, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y)]\n\n- **A Theoretical Understanding of Self-Correction through In-context Alignment**  \n  MIT, ICML, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=XHP3t1AUp3)]\n\n- **Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet**  \n  Google, ICLR, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=IkmD3fKBPQ)]\n\n- **LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations**  \n  Technion, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02707)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/technion-cs-nlp/LLMsKnow)]\n\n- **When Can Transformers Count to n?**  \n  NYU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15160)]\n\n- **Large Language Models as Reliable Knowledge Bases?**  \n  UoE, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13578)]\n\n- **States Hidden in Hidden States: LLMs Emerge Discrete State Representations Implicitly**  \n  THU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11421v1)]\n\n- **Large Language Models have Intrinsic Self-Correction Ability**  \n  UB, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15673)]\n\n- **What Did I Do Wrong? Quantifying LLMs' Sensitivity and Consistency to Prompt Engineering**  \n  NECLab, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12334v1)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/nec-research/sensitivity-consistency-LLM)]\n\n- **Large Language Models Must Be Taught to Know What They Don't Know**  \n  NYU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08391)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/activatedgeek/calibration-tuning)]\n\n- **Are LLMs classical or nonmonotonic reasoners? Lessons from generics**  \n  UvA, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06590)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/aleidinger/nonmonotonic_reasoning_generics)]\n\n- **On the Intrinsic Self-Correction Capability of LLMs: Uncertainty and Latent Concept**  \n  MSU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02378)]\n\n- **Calibrating Reasoning in Language Models with Internal Consistency**  \n  SJTU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18711)]\n\n- **Can Large Language Models Faithfully Express Their Intrinsic Uncertainty in Words?**  \n  TAU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16908)]\n\n- **Grokked Transformers are Implicit Reasoners: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization**  \n  OSU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15071)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/GrokkedTransformer)]\n\n- **SELF-[IN]CORRECT: LLMs Struggle with Refining Self-Generated Responses**  \n  JHU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04298)]\n\n- **Masked Thought: Simply Masking Partial Reasoning Steps Can Improve Mathematical Reasoning Learning of Language Models**  \n  RUC, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02178)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/ChangyuChen347/MaskedThought)]\n\n- **Do Large Language Models Latently Perform Multi-Hop Reasoning?**  \n  TAU, arXiv, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16837)]\n\n- **Pride and Prejudice: LLM Amplifies Self-Bias in Self-Refinement**  \n  UCSB, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11436)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/xu1998hz/llm_self_bias)]\n\n- **The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models**  \n  Rutgers, ACL, 2024\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04925)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/MingyuJ666/The-Impact-of-Reasoning-Step-Length-on-Large-Language-Models)]\n\n- **Can Large Language Models Really Improve by Self-critiquing Their Own Plans?**  \n  ASU, NeurIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=gGQfkyb0KL)]\n\n- **GPT-4 Doesn’t Know It’s Wrong: An Analysis of Iterative Prompting for Reasoning Problems**  \n  ASU, NeurIPS, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=PMtZjDYB68)]\n\n- **Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts**  \n  Stanford, TACL, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172)]\n\n- **How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball**  \n  NYU, arXiv, 2023\n  [[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13534)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/Nanami18/Snowballed_Hallucination)]\n\n- **On the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency for the Emergence of Intelligence**  \n  UCB, FITEE, 2022\n  [[Paper](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1631/FITEE.2200297)]\n\n- **On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?**  \n  Washington, FAccT, 2021\n  [[Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922)]\n\n- **How Can We Know When Language Models Know? On the Calibration of Language Models for Question Answering**  \n  CMU, TACL, 2021\n  [[Paper](https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00407/107277)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/jzbjyb/lm-calibration)]\n\n- **Language Models as Knowledge Bases?**  \n  Facebook, EMNLP, 2019\n  [[Paper](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1250/)]\n  [[Code](https://github.com/facebookresearch/LAMA)]\n\n## 📝 Citation\n\n```bibtex\n@article{liang2024internal,\n  title={Internal consistency and self-feedback in large language models: A survey},\n  author={Liang, Xun and Song, Shichao and Zheng, Zifan and Wang, Hanyu and Yu, Qingchen and Li, Xunkai and Li, Rong-Hua and Wang, Yi and Wang, Zhonghao and Xiong, Feiyu and Li, Zhiyu},\n  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.14507},\n  year={2024}\n}\n```\n","funding_links":[],"categories":["A01_文本生成_文本对话"],"sub_categories":["大语言对话模型及数据"],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2FIAAR-Shanghai%2FICSFSurvey","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2FIAAR-Shanghai%2FICSFSurvey","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2FIAAR-Shanghai%2FICSFSurvey/lists"}