Summary of A Notso Simple Way to Beat Simple Bench, by Soham Sane and Angus Mclean
A NotSo Simple Way to Beat Simple Bench
by Soham Sane, Angus McLean
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Dec 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 A novel framework is proposed to enhance reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) by leveraging iterative reasoning and feedback-driven methodologies. The framework addresses the limitations of the SimpleBench benchmark, which evaluates logical coherence and real-world reasoning. A multi-step prompting strategy is introduced, coupled with global consistency checks, to improve model accuracy and robustness. Comparative analysis of state-of-the-art models, including Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5, GPT-4o, and o1-preview, demonstrates that iterative reasoning significantly enhances model performance, with improvements observed in standard accuracy metrics (AVG@5) and the newly introduced metric Extreme Averaging (EAG@5). The results reveal model-specific strengths: Claude excels in maintaining logical consistency, while GPT-4o exhibits exploratory creativity but struggles with ambiguous prompts. Case studies are analyzed to identify gaps in spatial and temporal reasoning, highlighting areas for further refinement. The findings underscore the potential of structured reasoning frameworks to address inherent model limitations, regardless of pretraining methodologies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) can get better at thinking critically by using a new approach that involves multiple steps and checking their answers. This idea fixes some problems with how we test these models now. The authors compared different LLMs, like Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o, to see if this new method helps. It did! The results show that one model is good at keeping its answers logical, while another is creative but gets stuck sometimes. This study shows how we can make LLMs better at solving problems by giving them feedback and helping them learn from their mistakes. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Claude » Gpt » Pretraining » Prompting
