AI4Org: Hallucination Reduction & Data Pipeline

An advanced system for reducing hallucinations in Large Language Models using RAG, Discriminator-Guided Reinforcement Learning, and robust data generation pipelines.

Features • Architecture • Installation • Quick Start • Documentation • Contributing

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📋 Overview

AI4Org is a comprehensive machine learning system designed to tackle one of the most critical challenges in modern AI: hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs). The project combines cutting-edge techniques including:

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with semantic search
• Multi-Discriminator Architecture for factuality, style, and safety validation
• REINFORCE-based Reinforcement Learning for model fine-tuning
• Automated Q&A Data Generation Pipeline using Qwen 7B
• Desktop Application with interactive chat interface

This system is particularly designed for organizational policy documents, banking regulations, and other domains where factual accuracy is paramount.

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✨ Features

🧠 Hallucination Reduction Pipeline

• RAG Integration: Retrieves relevant context using TF-IDF and sentence embeddings
• Triple Discriminator System:
  • Factuality Discriminator: Validates factual accuracy against source documents
  • Style Discriminator: Ensures professional and appropriate language
  • Safety Discriminator: Filters unsafe or inappropriate content
• Reinforcement Learning: REINFORCE algorithm with discriminator-guided rewards
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT): Initial training on Q&A pairs before RL
• Multi-GPU Support: Automatic DataParallel for distributed training
• Gradient Checkpointing: Memory-efficient training for large models

📊 Data Generation Pipeline

• Automated Q&A Generation: Uses Qwen 7B (4-bit quantized) for generating question-answer pairs
• Document Processing: Supports PDF and TXT files with advanced cleaning
• Smart Chunking: Configurable chunking with overlap for context preservation
• Evidence Extraction: Sentence-level evidence linking using semantic similarity
• Deduplication: Exact and semantic deduplication using FAISS
• Validation: Strict quality checks for section numbers, policy names, and acronyms

🖥️ Desktop Frontend

• Cross-Platform: Built with pywebview for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Interactive Chat: Real-time RAG-enhanced question answering
• User Management: Login system with history tracking
• Admin Dashboard: User statistics and login analytics
• File Upload: Upload documents for training directly from the UI
• Modern UI: Responsive design with HTML/CSS/JavaScript

🧪 Testing Infrastructure

• Unit Tests: Comprehensive coverage for core components
• Integration Tests: End-to-end pipeline validation
• E2E Tests: Full system testing
• Automated Testing: pytest-based test suite

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🏗️ Architecture

graph TB
    subgraph "Data Pipeline"
        A[Raw Documents] --> B[Text Extraction]
        B --> C[Cleaning & Chunking]
        C --> D[Q&A Generation<br/>Qwen 7B]
        D --> E[Evidence Extraction]
        E --> F[Deduplication]
        F --> G[Validated Q&A Pairs]
    end

    subgraph "Training Pipeline"
        G --> H[Corpus Building]
        H --> I[Discriminator Training]
        I --> J[Supervised Fine-Tuning]
        J --> K[RL Loop<br/>REINFORCE]
        K --> L[Fine-tuned Generator]
    end

    subgraph "Inference"
        M[User Query] --> N[RAG Retrieval]
        N --> O[Context + Query]
        L --> P[Generator]
        O --> P
        P --> Q[Response]
    end

    subgraph "Frontend"
        R[Desktop App] --> M
        Q --> R
    end

    style A fill:#e1f5ff
    style G fill:#e1f5ff
    style L fill:#c8e6c9
    style Q fill:#fff9c4
    style R fill:#f8bbd0

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Component Overview

Component	Technology	Purpose
Generator	TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat	Causal language model for answer generation
Discriminators	DistilBERT	Binary classifiers for quality validation
Retriever	Sentence-Transformers	Semantic search for relevant context
Data Pipeline	Qwen 7B (4-bit)	Automated Q&A pair generation
Frontend	pywebview + HTML/CSS/JS	Cross-platform desktop application
RL Training	REINFORCE	Policy gradient optimization

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📦 Installation

Prerequisites

• Python: 3.10 or higher
• CUDA: 11.8+ (recommended for GPU training)
• RAM: 16GB minimum, 32GB recommended
• GPU: NVIDIA GPU with 8GB+ VRAM (optional but recommended)

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/merledu/ai4org.git
   cd ai4org

2. Create a virtual environment

   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Verify installation Run the included validation script to check your environment:

   python scripts/validate_setup.py

   This script will check your Python version, installed packages, data files, and environment variables.

Note (Windows / CPU users):

This project requires sentence-transformers and accelerate. If inference fails, ensure they are installed:

pip install sentence-transformers accelerate

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Training the Hallucination Reduction Model

Train the complete pipeline (discriminators → SFT → RL):

python -m hallucination_reduction.main

What happens during training:

1. Loads corpus and Q&A pairs from data/processed/
2. Trains three discriminators (factuality, style, safety)
3. Performs supervised fine-tuning on Q&A pairs
4. Runs reinforcement learning with discriminator feedback
5. Saves models to saved_models_improved/

Training Configuration (edit hallucination_reduction/config.py):

SFT_EPOCHS = 4        # Supervised fine-tuning epochs
SFT_BATCH = 1         # Batch size for SFT
DISC_EPOCHS = 4       # Discriminator training epochs
RL_EPOCHS = 4         # Reinforcement learning epochs
MC_ROLLOUTS = 6       # Monte Carlo rollouts per sample

2. Running Inference (Command Line)

Chat with the trained model via terminal:

python -m hallucination_reduction.inference

Example interaction:

🤖 RAG-Enhanced Chat Mode Started — type 'exit' to quit.

👤 You: What is the data retention policy?

🔍 Retrieved 3 relevant context chunks.
   [1] Data retention policies specify that customer records...
   [2] Personal information is stored for a maximum of...
   [3] Upon user request, all data will be deleted within...

🤖 Generator: Based on the organization's data retention policy,
customer records are maintained for the duration required by
regulatory compliance, typically 7 years for financial records...

3. Launching the Desktop Application

Start the interactive GUI:

cd frontend
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Features:

• 🔐 User login and registration
• 💬 Interactive chat with RAG-enhanced responses
• 📤 Document upload for training
• 👨‍💼 Admin dashboard (PIN: 9999)
• 📊 User statistics and login history

4. Generating Q&A Data

Create training data from policy documents:

cd data_generation_pipeline/data-pipeline

# Place your PDF/TXT files in data/input/
python -m cli run \
    --input data/input/your_policy.pdf \
    --output data/output/qa_pairs.json

Pipeline stages:

1. Text extraction from PDF/TXT
2. Document cleaning and normalization
3. Smart chunking with overlap
4. Q&A generation using Qwen 7B
5. Evidence sentence extraction
6. Semantic deduplication
7. Quality validation

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📚 Documentation

We have detailed documentation for each component of the system:

• System Architecture: High-level design, component interaction, and data flow diagrams.
• Hallucination Reduction: Deep dive into the generator, discriminators, and RL training pipeline.
• Data Generation Pipeline: How to generate training data from your own policy documents.
• Frontend Application: User guide and setup instructions for the desktop app.
• API Reference: Technical reference for key classes and functions.

Project Structure

ai4org/
├── 📂 docs/                         # 📚 Project documentation
├── 📂 hallucination_reduction/      # Core ML pipeline
├── 📂 data_generation_pipeline/     # Q&A generation system
├── 📂 frontend/                     # Desktop application
├── 📂 data/                         # Data storage
├── 📂 tests/                        # Test suite
└── ...

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🧪 Testing

Running All Tests

# Run complete test suite
pytest tests/

# Run with coverage report
pytest --cov=hallucination_reduction --cov-report=html tests/

# Run specific test categories
pytest tests/unit/              # Unit tests only
pytest tests/integration/       # Integration tests only
pytest tests/e2e/              # End-to-end tests only

Test Coverage

The project includes comprehensive tests for:

• ✅ Data loading and preprocessing
• ✅ Discriminator training and evaluation
• ✅ Generator fine-tuning
• ✅ RAG retrieval accuracy
• ✅ RL training loop
• ✅ Inference pipeline
• ✅ Q&A generation pipeline
• ✅ Frontend API endpoints

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🔧 Configuration

Environment Variables

# Model selection
export GEN_MODEL="TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0"
export DISC_MODEL="distilbert-base-uncased"

# GPU configuration
export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1"  # Use specific GPUs
export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF="expandable_segments:true"

# Disable tokenizer warnings
export TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM="false"

Training Hyperparameters

Edit hallucination_reduction/config.py:

# Supervised Fine-Tuning
SFT_EPOCHS = 4
SFT_BATCH = 1
SFT_LR = 3e-5

# Discriminator Training
DISC_EPOCHS = 4
DISC_BATCH = 8
DISC_LR = 2e-5

# Reinforcement Learning
RL_EPOCHS = 4
MC_ROLLOUTS = 6
GEN_LR = 1e-5
MAX_GEN_TOKENS = 64

# Reward Weights
FACT_WEIGHT = 0.8
STYLE_WEIGHT = 0.15
SAFETY_WEIGHT = 0.05

Data Pipeline Configuration

Edit data_generation_pipeline/data-pipeline/config/pipeline_config.yaml:

chunking:
  chunk_size: 512
  overlap: 128

generation:
  max_qa_per_chunk: 5
  temperature: 0.7

deduplication:
  similarity_threshold: 0.85

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📊 Model Performance

Hallucination Reduction Metrics

Metric	Baseline	After SFT	After RL	Improvement
Hallucination Rate	45.2%	28.7%	12.3%	-32.9%
Factuality Score	0.62	0.78	0.91	+0.29
Style Score	0.71	0.84	0.89	+0.18
Safety Score	0.88	0.93	0.96	+0.08

Training Time (Single RTX 3090)

• Discriminator Training: ~15 minutes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning: ~30 minutes
• Reinforcement Learning: ~45 minutes
• Total: ~1.5 hours

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

Quick Contribution Guide

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch

   git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature

3. Make your changes
4. Run tests

   pytest tests/

5. Commit with clear messages

   git commit -m "Add amazing feature"

6. Push to your fork

   git push origin feature/amazing-feature

7. Open a Pull Request

Code Style

• Follow PEP 8 guidelines
• Use meaningful variable and function names
• Add docstrings to all functions and classes
• Include type hints where appropriate
• Write tests for new features

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📝 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• Hugging Face for Transformers library and model hosting
• PyTorch team for the deep learning framework
• Sentence-Transformers for semantic search capabilities
• TinyLlama project for the efficient language model
• Qwen team for the Q&A generation model

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📧 Contact & Support

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Organization: MeRL-EDU

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🗺️ Roadmap

• Support for larger models (Llama 2, Mistral)
• Multi-language support
• Web-based deployment option
• Real-time streaming inference
• Advanced evaluation metrics
• Model distillation for edge deployment
• Integration with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate)
• API server with FastAPI
• Docker containerization
• Kubernetes deployment templates

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