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Keyword: self-consistency Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

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

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    1. UncheckedThe paper reports that self-consistency improves chain-of-thought prompting on arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks, by 3.9 to 17.9 percentage points.“Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that self-consistency boosts the performance of chain-of-thought prompting with a striking margin on a range of popular arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks, including GSM8K (+17.9%), SVAMP (+11.0%), AQuA (+12.2%), StrategyQA (+6.4%) and ARC-chall…”

  2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Large Language Models Can Self-Improve

    Huang, Gu, Le Hou et al. · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We show that our approach improves the general reasoning ability of a 540B-parameter LLM (74.4%->82.1% on GSM8K, 78.2%->83.0% on DROP, 90.0%->94.4% on OpenBookQA, and 63.4%->67.9% on ANLI-A3) and achieves state-of-the-art-level performance, without any groun…
    2. Unchecked“We conduct ablation studies and show that fine-tuning on reasoning is critical for self-improvement.”

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