In plain words: Built a training set where each problem comes as a tree of different solution paths, feedback, and good-vs-bad answer pairs, used to fine-tune models and teach a judge to score answers. The biggest model beat GPT-3.5 Turbo across 12 reasoning tests.
Abstract · Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees
We introduce Eurus, a suite of large language models (LLMs) optimized for reasoning. Finetuned from Mistral-7B and CodeLlama-70B, Eurus models achieve state-of-the-art results among open-source models on a diverse set of benchmarks covering mathematics, code generation, and logical reasoning problems. Notably, Eurus-70B beats GPT-3.5 Turbo in reasoning through a comprehensive benchmarking across 12 tests covering five tasks, and achieves a 33.3% pass@1 accuracy on LeetCode and 32.6% on TheoremQA, two challenging benchmarks, substantially outperforming existing open-source models by margins more than 13.3%. The strong performance of Eurus can be primarily attributed to UltraInteract, our newly-curated large-scale, high-quality alignment dataset specifically designed for complex reasoning tasks. UltraInteract can be used in both supervised fine-tuning and preference learning. For each instruction, it includes a preference tree consisting of (1) reasoning chains with diverse planning strategies in a unified format, (2) multi-turn interaction trajectories with the environment and the critique, and (3) pairwise data to facilitate preference learning. UltraInteract allows us to conduct an in-depth exploration of preference learning for reasoning tasks. Our investigation reveals that some well-established preference learning algorithms may be less suitable for reasoning tasks compared to their effectiveness in general conversations. Inspired by this, we derive a novel reward modeling objective which, together with UltraInteract, leads to a strong reward model.
Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Hanbin Wang, Ning Ding, Xingyao Wang, Jia Deng, Boji Shan, Huimin Chen, Ruobing Xie, Yankai Lin, Zhenghao Liu, Bowen Zhou, et al.
arXiv:2404.02078 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Apr 2, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · Models and data are available at https://github.com/OpenBMB/Eurus
Instead, what they exhibit is something less --- call it statistical mimicry.
I think it is highly likely that exposing LLMs to the internet will make them noticeably dumber over time instead of smarter. They'll start consuming their own inaccurate BS and accepting it as fact in a self polluting and destructive feedback loop.