Summary of On the Inductive Bias Of Stacking Towards Improving Reasoning, by Nikunj Saunshi et al.
On the Inductive Bias of Stacking Towards Improving Reasoning
by Nikunj Saunshi, Stefani Karp, Shankar Krishnan, Sobhan Miryoosefi, Sashank J. Reddi, Sanjiv Kumar
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 MIDAS model is a variant of gradual stacking that can speed up language model training by up to 40%. This efficient training method also exhibits an intriguing inductive bias towards improving downstream tasks, such as reading comprehension and math problems. The authors construct reasoning primitives to analyze this bias and find that models pretrained with stacking outperform standard pretraining on these tasks, even without fine-tuning. The findings are verified across language models of varying sizes (1B, 2B, and 8B parameters). Additionally, the study explores the connection between stacking and looped models, providing supporting empirical analysis. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed a new way to train language models called MIDAS that can learn faster than usual. They also discovered that this method helps models get better at solving problems that require reasoning, like reading comprehension and math. To test this, they created simple tasks that are building blocks for problem-solving and found that models trained with MIDAS performed better on these tasks. This is important because it shows that the way we train language models can affect how well they do certain tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Language model » Pretraining
