Supervising Intermediate Reasoning Steps for LLM Alignment
The principles of Chain-of-Thought, where a problem is broken down into intermediate steps, can be adapted for Large Language Model alignment. This is achieved by supervising the model not just on its final output, but on the individual steps it takes during its reasoning process.
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Ch.5 Inference - Foundations of Large Language Models
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A developer is trying to improve a language model's ability to solve multi-step word problems. They compare two prompting strategies.
Strategy 1: Provide the model with a new word problem and ask for the final answer directly.
Strategy 2: Provide the model with a new word problem, but first show it an example of a similar problem where the solution is explicitly broken down into logical, sequential steps before reaching the final conclusion.
Why is Strategy 2 generally more effective for improving the model's reasoning on complex tasks?
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