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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   BNAI, NO-TOKEN, and MIND-UNITY: Pillars of a Systemic Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

   Jason, Xuezhi, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper shows that prompting large language models with examples of step-by-step reasoning improves their performance on complex reasoning tasks, with some striking gains.

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   1. UncheckedIn experiments on three large language models, chain of thought prompting improved performance on arithmetic, commonsense and symbolic reasoning tasks.“Experiments on three large language models show that chain of thought prompting improves performance on a range of arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks.”
   2. UncheckedPrompting a 540B-parameter language model with eight chain of thought examples reached state of the art on GSM8K, beating finetuned GPT-3 with a verifier.“For instance, prompting a 540B-parameter language model with just eight chain of thought exemplars achieves state of the art accuracy on the GSM8K benchmark of math word problems, surpassing even finetuned GPT-3 with a verifier.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Inverse scaling can become U-shaped

   Jason, Najoung, Tay and Le · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper re-tests eleven Inverse Scaling Prize tasks on larger models and finds many show U-shaped scaling, where performance falls and then rises again, so the inverse trend may not hold at larger scale.

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   1. UncheckedWith models up to 540B parameters and more training compute, only four of eleven tasks previously found to get worse with scale still show that pattern.“With this increased range of model sizes and training compute, only four out of the eleven tasks remain inverse scaling.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper finds that giving a language model one worked example, or prompting it to reason step by step, can further reduce worsening performance as models grow.“In addition, we find that 1-shot examples and chain-of-thought can help mitigate undesirable scaling patterns even further.”
   3. UncheckedOf eleven tasks where bigger models did worse, six showed U-shaped scaling: performance fell, then rose again at the largest size tested; one improved throughout.“Six out of the eleven tasks exhibit "U-shaped scaling", where performance decreases up to a certain size, and then increases again up to the largest model evaluated (the one remaining task displays positive scaling).”