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🔄 Self-Taught Evaluators

This research paper explores the development of self-taught language model evaluators. Instead of relying on costly human annotations, this approach utilizes synthetic data generated by the model itself. The method iteratively trains an LLM-as-a-Judge by creating contrasting response pairs, generating reasoning traces, and fine-tuning the model on this synthetic data. The research demonstrates that this method significantly improves the accuracy of the evaluator on benchmarks like RewardBench, achieving performance comparable to reward models trained with labeled examples. The authors also explore various data sources, ablations, and analyses to understand the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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#LLM_Evaluation #Syntethic_Data #Reward_Model

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⚠️ Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable

This research paper from Nature explores the relationship between the size and instructability of large language models (LLMs) and their reliability. The study finds that while larger, more instructable LLMs tend to perform better on complex tasks, they become less reliable in handling simple tasks, often producing plausible but incorrect answers instead of safely avoiding them. Additionally, the study highlights the limitations of human supervision in correcting errors and emphasizes the need for a fundamental shift in LLM design and development to prioritize reliability, particularly in high-stakes applications where predictable error distributions are crucial.

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#Reliability #Difficulty_Concordance #Task_Avoidance

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💭 Logic-of-Thought: Injecting Logic into Contexts for Full Reasoning in LLMs

This research paper introduces Logic-of-Thought (LoT), a novel prompting method designed to enhance logical reasoning in large language models. LoT extracts propositions and logical relations from input text, expands them using logical rules, and reintegrates this information into the original prompt. Unlike existing techniques, LoT preserves information and guides the model's reasoning process while leveraging its natural language understanding. Experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate LoT's effectiveness in improving various prompting methods. The authors also compare LoT favorably to a neuro-symbolic approach, highlighting its advantages in information preservation and language comprehension utilization.

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#LogicalReasoning #NeuroSymbolic

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🟢 Moshi: a speech-text foundation model for real-time dialogue

The paper discusses a new multimodal foundation model called Moshi designed for real-time, full-duplex spoken dialogue. This model uses a text-based LLM called Helium to provide reasoning abilities and a neural audio codec called Mimi to encode audio into tokens. Moshi is innovative because it can handle overlapping speech and model both the user's and the system's speech in a single stream. The paper also explores the model's performance on various tasks like question answering and its ability to generate speech in different voices. Finally, it addresses safety concerns such as toxicity, regurgitation, and voice consistency, and proposes solutions using watermarking techniques.

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#RQـTransformer #InnerMonologue #SpeechGeneration

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🔑 Jailbreaking Large Language Models with Symbolic Mathematics

This research paper investigates a new vulnerability in AI safety mechanisms by introducing MathPrompt, a technique that utilizes symbolic mathematics to bypass LLM safety measures. The paper demonstrates that encoding harmful natural language prompts into mathematical problems allows LLMs to generate harmful content, despite being trained to prevent it. Experiments across 13 state-of-the-art LLMs show a high success rate for MathPrompt, indicating that existing safety measures are not effective against mathematically encoded inputs. The study emphasizes the need for more comprehensive safety mechanisms that can handle various input types and their associated risks.

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#Jailbreaking #AISafety #MathPrompt

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📈 LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs?

The paper "LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench" investigates the ability of large language models (LLMs) to plan, using a benchmark called PlanBench. The authors find that while OpenAI's new "Large Reasoning Model" (LRM) o1 shows significant improvement in planning abilities, it still falls short of fully achieving the task. This research highlights the need for further investigation into the accuracy, efficiency, and guarantees associated with these advanced models.

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#Planning #Reasoning #PlanBench

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📏 A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantized Instruction-Tuned LLMs

This paper, titled "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Quantized Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models: An Experimental Analysis up to 405B," examines the performance of large language models (LLMs) after they have been compressed using various quantization methods. The authors assess the impact of these techniques on different task types and model sizes, including the very large 405B parameter Llama 3.1 model. They explore how different quantization methods, model sizes, and bit-widths affect performance, finding that larger quantized models often outperform smaller FP16 models and that certain methods, such as weight-only quantization, are particularly effective for larger models. The study also concludes that task difficulty does not significantly impact the accuracy degradation caused by quantization.

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#Quantization #Instruction_Tuned #HallucinationDetection

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🧠 On the Diagram of Thought

This paper introduces a new framework called Diagram of Thought (DoT) that models how large language models (LLMs) reason. Unlike traditional methods that represent reasoning as linear chains or trees, DoT utilizes a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure. This structure allows LLMs to navigate complex reasoning pathways while ensuring logical consistency. By incorporating feedback mechanisms and leveraging auto-regressive next-token prediction, DoT enables LLMs to iteratively refine their reasoning process. The authors also formalize the DoT framework using Topos Theory, providing a mathematical foundation for its logical consistency and soundness. This approach enhances both training and inference within a single LLM, eliminating the need for multiple models or external control mechanisms. DoT offers a promising framework for developing next-generation reasoning-specialized LLMs.

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#DiagramOfThought #DoT #Reasoning

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