4 papers
Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why
Shahriar Noroozizadeh, Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Elan Rosenfeld +1
Deep sequence models are said to store atomic facts predominantly in the form of associative memory: a brute-force lookup of co-occurring entities. We identify a dramatically diffe…
Catch Your Breath: Adaptive Computation for Self-Paced Sequence Production
Alexandre Galashov, Matt Jones, Rosemary Ke +3
Within the landscape of inference-time scaling methods for foundation models, a width-based approach to scaling -- which involves the insertion of <pause> tokens in the input strea…
Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction
Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Chen Henry Wu, Charles Ding +1
We design a suite of minimal algorithmic tasks that are a loose abstraction of open-ended real-world tasks. This allows us to cleanly and controllably quantify the creative limits…
The pitfalls of next-token prediction
Gregor Bachmann, Vaishnavh Nagarajan
Can a mere next-token predictor faithfully model human intelligence? We crystallize this emerging concern and correct popular misconceptions surrounding it, and advocate a simple m…