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How Do Humans Write Code? Large Models Do It the Same Way Too (arxiv.org)
1 point by saliagato on Feb 27, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Rather than jumping straight to code to compute math answers, the model writes plain-language reasoning first and lets it steer the code, trained on whether both versions were right. This cut the logic errors code-only solving caused, adding 6.5% accuracy across eight math datasets.

Abstract

Program-of-Thought (PoT) replaces natural language-based Chain-of-Thought (CoT) as the most popular method in Large Language Models (LLMs) mathematical reasoning tasks by utilizing external tool calls to circumvent computational errors. However, our evaluation of the GPT-4 and Llama series reveals that using PoT introduces more reasoning errors, such as incorrect formulas or flawed logic, compared to CoT. To address this issue, we propose Human-Think Language (HTL), which leverages a suite of strategies that help integrate PoT and CoT, encompassing: (1) a new generation paradigm that uses full CoT reasoning to control code generation. (2) Focus Attention, that directs model attention to the CoT reasoning during PoT to generate more logical code. (3) reinforcement learning that utilizes the accuracy of both CoT and PoT responses as rewards to prevent repetitive reasoning steps in LLMs when solving difficult math problems. Our method achieves an average improvement of 6.5% on the Llama-Base model and 4.3% on the Mistral-Base model across 8 mathematical calculation datasets. It also shows significant effectiveness on five out-of-domain datasets by controlling the model's information flow, exhibiting strong transferability. Additionally, HTL shows the most significant improvement in non-mathematical natural language inference task, contributing to a unified reasoning task framework

Long Li, Xuzheng He, Haozhe Wang, Linlin Wang, Liang He
arXiv:2402.15729 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.PL · submitted Feb 24, 2024 · updated Oct 16, 2024
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