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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

Boosting Language Models By 8.2% With Targeted Token Exploration

Targeted Token Exploration boosts language models by 8.2% in math & reasoning tasks. Novel reinforcement learning approach identifies 'critical tokens' for selective exploration.

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Novel reinforcement learning approach that improves language model exploration
Focuses on identifying and exploring "critical tokens" during training
Reduces KL penalty on important decision points to encourage better exploration
Achieves significant performance gains on reasoning and math tasks
Introduces "Critical Token KL...