A³: Automatic Alignment Framework for Attributed Text Generation

Attributed text generation aims to enhance the reliability of content generated from large language models by providing citations for each claim, which thereby enables users to easily verify the correctness of the responses. However, the scarcity of high-quality training samples presents a significant challenge in aligning large language models to generate texts with citations, revealing considerable room for improvement in existing attribution systems. Besides, existing approaches of aligning large language models to follow user instructions can lead to an undue emphasis on irrelevant documents, which in turn reduces the quality of responses. To address the above problems, we propose Automatic Alignment Framework for Attributed Text Generation (A 3 ), a novel framework designed to automatically generate highquality attributed query-response pairs for both supervised fine-tuning and preference optimization stages without human annotation. With the help of A 3 , Mistral-7B can achieve a citation recall of 84.4 and a precision of 87.0 precision on ASQA, which notably surpasses GPT-4's citation recall of 73.0 and precision of 76.5. 1 * Equal contribution † Corresponding author 1 Our dataset is accessible at https://huggingface.co/ datasets/A3Data/A3-Wikigraph-QA-SFT .