Summary of Large Model Strategic Thinking, Small Model Efficiency: Transferring Theory Of Mind in Large Language Models, by Nunzio Lore et al.
Large Model Strategic Thinking, Small Model Efficiency: Transferring Theory of Mind in Large Language Models
by Nunzio Lore, Sepehr Ilami, Babak Heydari
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the feasibility of creating smaller, highly-performing specialized algorithms by fine-tuning larger language models for strategic Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks. A large pre-trained model is presented with 20 unique scenarios combining social contexts and games, and its answers are recorded to fine-tune a smaller model of the same family. The focus is on in-context game-theoretic decision-making, requiring both ToM and understanding of social dynamics. The results show that the fine-tuned smaller language model consistently bridges the gap in performance between the smaller pre-trained version and the larger relative, with improvements extending beyond training examples to out-of-sample scenarios. Keywords include Large Language Models, Theory of Mind, game-theoretic decision-making, and ToM. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper explores ways to make large language models more efficient for strategic thinking tasks. They take a big model and use it to help train a smaller version to perform similar tasks. This approach is useful because larger models are powerful but also require lots of processing power and time. The results show that the smaller, fine-tuned model can almost match the performance of the bigger one, even when faced with new situations it wasn’t trained on. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Language model
