Do Large GPT Models Discover Moral Dimensions in Language Representations? A Topological Study Of Sentence Embeddings
Authors: Stephen Fitz
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- This paper explores the internal structures of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically focusing on GPT-3.5.
- The study investigates the topological structure of neuronal activity in Chat-GPT's foundation language model and analyzes it with respect to a fairness metric.
- The authors propose a novel approach to visualize GPT's moral dimensions by computing a fairness metric inspired by social psychology literature.
- They summarize the shape of the manifold using a lower-dimensional simplicial complex and color it with a heat map associated with the fairness metric, resulting in human-readable visualizations of the high-dimensional sentence manifold.
- The results show that GPT-3.5 sentence embeddings can be decomposed into two submanifolds corresponding to fair and unfair moral judgments.
- This indicates that GPT-based language models develop a moral dimension within their representation spaces during training.
- Overall, this study provides insights into the internal workings of LLMs and their understanding of fairness in language representations.
Abstract: As Large Language Models are deployed within Artificial Intelligence systems, that are increasingly integrated with human society, it becomes more important than ever to study their internal structures. Higher level abilities of LLMs such as GPT-3.5 emerge in large part due to informative language representations they induce from raw text data during pre-training on trillions of words. These embeddings exist in vector spaces of several thousand dimensions, and their processing involves mapping between multiple vector spaces, with total number of parameters on the order of trillions. Furthermore, these language representations are induced by gradient optimization, resulting in a black box system that is hard to interpret. In this paper, we take a look at the topological structure of neuronal activity in the "brain" of Chat-GPT's foundation language model, and analyze it with respect to a metric representing the notion of fairness. We develop a novel approach to visualize GPT's moral dimensions. We first compute a fairness metric, inspired by social psychology literature, to identify factors that typically influence fairness assessments in humans, such as legitimacy, need, and responsibility. Subsequently, we summarize the manifold's shape using a lower-dimensional simplicial complex, whose topology is derived from this metric. We color it with a heat map associated with this fairness metric, producing human-readable visualizations of the high-dimensional sentence manifold. Our results show that sentence embeddings based on GPT-3.5 can be decomposed into two submanifolds corresponding to fair and unfair moral judgments. This indicates that GPT-based language models develop a moral dimension within their representation spaces and induce an understanding of fairness during their training process.
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