Summary of Self-controller: Controlling Llms with Multi-round Step-by-step Self-awareness, by Xiao Peng et al.
Self-controller: Controlling LLMs with Multi-round Step-by-step Self-awareness
by Xiao Peng, Xufan Geng
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Oct 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 agentic framework called “Self-controller” brings self-awareness to large language models (LLMs), enabling controllable and effective reasoning. By maintaining states based on LLM responses, the Self-controller achieves multi-round chain-of-thought paradigm, demonstrated through experiments on textual length state. The approach accelerates generation processes using binary search algorithms and DeepSeek’s Context Caching technology. Theoretically, this framework has a time complexity of O(c log n) and is shown to be consistent across foundation models in ablation studies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are used everywhere, but they don’t have complete control over what they do. To fix this, scientists created something called “Self-controller” that makes LLMs more aware of themselves. This new way of thinking lets LLMs make decisions step by step and change their minds if needed. The researchers tested it on text length and showed that it works well. They also used a special trick to make the process faster, which helps when talking about things that are related. |
