Summary of A Hopfieldian View-based Interpretation For Chain-of-thought Reasoning, by Lijie Hu et al.
A Hopfieldian View-based Interpretation for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
by Lijie Hu, Liang Liu, Shu Yang, Xin Chen, Hongru Xiao, Mengdi Li, Pan Zhou, Muhammad Asif Ali, Di Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper delves into the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism’s effectiveness in enhancing reasoning capabilities for large language models (LLMs). It explores two settings: zero-shot and few-shot CoT, analyzing why specific prompts or examples improve performance. The authors propose a Read-and-Control approach to explain CoT’s inner workings, providing reasoning error localization and control over the correct path. They conduct extensive experiments on seven datasets across three tasks, demonstrating their framework’s capabilities. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand why large language models are better at thinking step by step. It looks at two ways of doing this: zero-shot (no examples) and few-shot (some examples). The authors ask questions like “why does a certain prompt help?” or “why do examples make a difference?” to figure out what’s going on. They come up with a new way to analyze CoT, called Read-and-Control, which can show us where the model is making mistakes and how to get it right. They test their idea on many datasets and tasks, showing that it really works. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Few shot » Prompt » Zero shot
