Larger AI Models Like GPT-4 Better At Compressing Reasoning
Large language models like GPT-4 & Claude excel at compressing their own reasoning, outperforming smaller models. Compression ability correlates with reasoning performance, but CoT increases token usage despite improving accuracy.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Larger AI Models Like GPT-4 Better at Compressing Their Own Reasoning, Study Shows. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Overview Research examines how well LLMs compress their own reasoning Introduces token complexity to measure compression effectiveness Shows LLMs struggle to efficiently compress their own reasoning Claude and GPT-4 have better self-compression than smaller models Compression ability correlates with reasoning performance Chain-of-Thought increases...