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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and all things Software 3.0

[Cognitive Revolution] The Tiny Model Revolution with Ronen Eldan and Yuanzhi Li of Microsoft Research

Jul 1, 2023
02:05:25

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Quick takeaways

  • Training smaller language models on the Tiny Stories dataset enables the emergence of reasoning capabilities, demonstrating basic logic and exclusion skills.
  • There is a trade-off between breadth and depth in data sets and models, and finding the optimal balance is crucial for enhancing reasoning abilities in language models.

Deep dives

Emergence of reasoning capabilities in language models

The research explores the emergence of reasoning capabilities in language models. By training smaller models on the Tiny Stories dataset, the researchers observed that these models were able to generate coherent stories and demonstrate basic reasoning abilities, such as exclusion and logic, when completing sentences. The emergence of these capabilities became more evident as the size of the models increased. It is hypothesized that the focus on consistency and simplicity in the Tiny Stories dataset allowed the models to allocate their capacity towards reasoning rather than memorization. The findings suggest that gradual curriculum development and balancing the amount of knowledge and the emphasis on ability training could be important in further enhancing the emergence of reasoning in language models.

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