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Mike Young @mikeyoung44

AI Models Improve Reasoning With Double-Checking & More

AI models can improve reasoning with 4 key behaviors: double-checking, seeking background knowledge, step-back reasoning & heuristic relaxation. Testing shows significant benefits in math, common-sense & symbolic reasoning.

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Self-Training through Automatic Reasoning (STaR) models can improve their own reasoning
Four key cognitive behaviors drive this self-improvement
These behaviors are: double-checking, seeking background knowledge, step-back reasoning, and heuristic relaxation
Testing on math, common-sense, and symbolic reasoning shows significant benef...