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Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking

Eric Zelikman, Georges Harik, Yijia Shao, Varuna Jayasiri, Nick Haber, Noah D. Goodman

Trains on ordinary text by generating written rationales before predicting what comes next. Learns from how much those rationales improve subsequent token predictions.

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arXiv:2403.09629 · Initial submission: 2024-03-14

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Thinking tokens — Give a model extra tokens for computation, such as pauses, filler symbols, or learned planning tokens. These tokens need not spell out the solution.

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