2 papers
cs.LG2025
Language Models, Graph Searching, and Supervision Adulteration: When More Supervision is Less and How to Make More More
Arvid Frydenlund
This work concerns the path-star task, a minimal example of searching over a graph. The graph, , is star-shaped with arms radiating from a start node, . A language model…
cs.CL2024
The Mystery of the Pathological Path-star Task for Language Models
Arvid Frydenlund
The recently introduced path-star task is a minimal task designed to exemplify limitations to the abilities of language models (Bachmann and Nagarajan, 2024). It involves a path-st…