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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

   Chowdhery, Narang, Devlin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The authors trained PaLM, a 540-billion-parameter language model, and report state-of-the-art few-shot results on hundreds of benchmarks, plus analyses of scaling, bias, toxicity and memorisation.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report that scaling a language model up to 540 billion parameters gave state-of-the-art few-shot results on hundreds of benchmarks.“We demonstrate continued benefits of scaling by achieving state-of-the-art few-shot learning results on hundreds of language understanding and generation benchmarks.”
   2. UncheckedMany BIG-bench tasks showed sudden, steep gains in performance when the model reached the largest size the authors trained, PaLM 540B.“A significant number of BIG-bench tasks showed discontinuous improvements from model scale, meaning that performance steeply increased as we scaled to our largest model.”
   3. UncheckedOn some tasks, the 540-billion-parameter PaLM model beat the finetuned state of the art on multi-step reasoning and average human performance on BIG-bench.“On a number of these tasks, PaLM 540B achieves breakthrough performance, outperforming the finetuned state-of-the-art on a suite of multi-step reasoning tasks, and outperforming average human performance on the recently released BIG-bench benchmark.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Plan-and-Solve Prompting: Improving Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning by Large Language Models

   Wang, Xu, Lan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper proposes Plan-and-Solve prompting, which asks a language model to plan and then carry out subtasks, to fix errors in Zero-shot-CoT, and tests it on ten datasets across three reasoning problems.

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   1. UncheckedWith GPT-3, the authors' zero-shot Plan-and-Solve prompting beat Zero-shot-CoT on all datasets and matched 8-shot CoT on maths problems.“The experimental results over GPT-3 show that our proposed zero-shot prompting consistently outperforms Zero-shot-CoT across all datasets by a large margin, is comparable to or exceeds Zero-shot-Program-of-Thought Prompting, and has comparable performance with 8-shot CoT prompting on the math reaso…”

3. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

   Fact-Checking Complex Claims with Program-Guided Reasoning

   Pan, Wu, Lu et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper presents ProgramFC, which breaks complex claims into sub-tasks using language-model-generated programs, and reports it outperforms seven baselines on two fact-checking datasets.

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   1. UncheckedProgramFC, a program-guided fact-checker, is reported to beat seven baselines on two fact-checking datasets, with output programs that help human debugging.“We evaluate ProgramFC on two challenging fact-checking datasets and show that it outperforms seven fact-checking baselines across different settings of evidence availability, with explicit output programs that benefit human debugging.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors say ProgramFC's program-based approach explains its reasoning clearly and needs only minimal training data.“This process makes our model both explanatory and data-efficient, providing clear explanations of its reasoning process and requiring minimal training data.”