Summary of Improving Llm Reasoning Through Scaling Inference Computation with Collaborative Verification, by Zhenwen Liang et al.
Improving LLM Reasoning through Scaling Inference Computation with Collaborative Verification
by Zhenwen Liang, Ye Liu, Tong Niu, Xiangliang Zhang, Yingbo Zhou, Semih Yavuz
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- 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 Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in various tasks, but they still struggle with consistent and accurate reasoning, particularly in complex tasks like mathematical and code reasoning. This limitation stems from their training on correct solutions, which hinders their ability to detect and learn from errors. To address this, researchers introduced a novel approach that generates multiple reasoning paths and employs verifiers to assess and rank generated outputs by correctness. A comprehensive dataset was created featuring correct and incorrect solutions for math and code tasks, allowing verifiers to effectively distinguish between correct and erroneous outputs. The training methods for building verifiers were selected through an extensive comparison of existing approaches. To leverage the strengths of different reasoning strategies, a collaborative method integrating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and Program-of-Thought (PoT) solutions was proposed. By combining these approaches, the accuracy and reliability of reasoning verification were significantly improved. Verifiers Math-Rev and Code-Rev demonstrated substantial performance gains over existing LLMs, achieving state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like GSM8k and MATH. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are super smart, but they can be really bad at figuring out math problems or writing code. This is because they’re only trained on the correct answers, so they don’t know how to catch mistakes. To fix this, researchers came up with a new way of doing things. They created a special tool that looks at different ways of solving a problem and then checks which one is right. They also made a huge dataset of math problems and code snippets, both correct and incorrect. This helps the tool learn what’s right and what’s wrong. The researchers tried out lots of different methods to see which ones worked best, and they found that combining two special techniques called Chain-of-Thought and Program-of-Thought works really well. With this new approach, the tool can catch mistakes better than before, and it even beats some super smart computers! |
