Classification of LLM Fine-Tuning Approaches for Reasoning Tasks
For reasoning tasks where a Large Language Model generates a sequence of steps leading to a verifiable final answer, the fine-tuning methods can be grouped into two main categories, as identified by Uesato et al. (2022).
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