Summary of Path-consistency: Prefix Enhancement For Efficient Inference in Llm, by Jiace Zhu et al.
Path-Consistency: Prefix Enhancement for Efficient Inference in LLM
by Jiace Zhu, Yingtao Shen, Jie Zhao, An Zou
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method, path-consistency, aims to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by leveraging the confidence of answers generated in earlier branches to identify the prefix of the most promising path. This approach dynamically guides the generation of subsequent branches, reducing errors and redundancies from random or less useful sampling in self-consistency. The resulting inference process accelerates significantly, with a latency reduction ranging from 7.8% to 40.5%, while maintaining or improving task accuracy across various datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper introduces a new way to make language models better at making decisions. Right now, these models can be slow and inefficient because they have to consider many different possibilities before choosing the best one. The authors of this paper came up with an idea called “path-consistency” that helps these models find the most promising path more quickly. This approach uses the confidence level of previous answers to guide the model’s next moves, which makes it more efficient and effective. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference
