Summary of An Investigation Of Neuron Activation As a Unified Lens to Explain Chain-of-thought Eliciting Arithmetic Reasoning Of Llms, by Daking Rai et al.
An Investigation of Neuron Activation as a Unified Lens to Explain Chain-of-Thought Eliciting Arithmetic Reasoning of LLMs
by Daking Rai, Ziyu Yao
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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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 aims to demystify the processing mechanisms behind large language models’ (LLMs) arithmetic reasoning capabilities when prompted with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompts. Prior work has primarily focused on ablating different components in CoT prompts and observing their effects on LLM performance, but lacked a unified explanation for these findings. The authors propose investigating “neuron activation” as a lens to understand why certain components are important for LLM reasoning. They use Llama2 as an example and develop an approach based on GPT-4 to automatically identify neurons that imply arithmetic reasoning. The study reveals that the activation of reasoning neurons in the feed-forward layers of an LLM explains the importance of various CoT prompt components, paving the way for future research towards a more comprehensive understanding. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to figure out how large language models think and make math problems. Researchers have been studying how these models work when given specific prompts, but they didn’t know why certain parts of those prompts made a difference. In this study, the authors looked at which tiny “neurons” in the model’s brain were activated when it was doing math. They used a special approach to identify these neurons and found that when they’re active, the model can understand the importance of different parts of the prompt. This helps us better understand how language models think and could lead to even more advanced models in the future. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt » Prompt
