23 papers
Self-Improving Pretraining: using post-trained models to pretrain better models
Ellen Xiaoqing Tan, Jack Lanchantin, Shehzaad Dhuliawala +9
Large language models are classically trained in stages: pretraining on raw text followed by post-training for instruction following and reasoning. However, this separation creates…
Learning to Solve and Verify: A Self-Play Framework for Code and Test Generation
Zi Lin, Sheng Shen, Ilia Kulikov +3
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved their performance on coding benchmarks. However, improvement is plateauing due to the exhaustion of readily available…
Stochastic activations
Maria Lomeli, Matthijs Douze, Gergely Szilvasy +7
We introduce stochastic activations. This novel strategy randomly selects between several non-linear functions in the feed-forward layer of a large language model. In particular, w…
AI & Human Co-Improvement for Safer Co-Superintelligence
Jason Weston, Jakob Foerster
Self-improvement is a goal currently exciting the field of AI, but is fraught with danger, and may take time to fully achieve. We advocate that a more achievable and better goal fo…
NaturalReasoning: Reasoning in the Wild with 2.8M Challenging Questions
Weizhe Yuan, Jane Yu, Song Jiang +8
Scaling reasoning capabilities beyond traditional domains such as math and coding is hindered by the lack of diverse and high-quality questions. To overcome this limitation, we int…
Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
Shibo Hao, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, DiJia Su +4
Large language models (LLMs) are typically constrained to reason in the language space, where they express the reasoning process through a chain-of-thought (CoT) to solve complex p…