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Distilling System 2 into System 1

Ping Yu, Jing Xu, Jason Weston, Ilia Kulikov

Uses outputs from a slower deliberative process as training data for a faster model, studying when System-2-like behavior can be compressed into direct prediction.

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arXiv:2407.06023 · Initial submission: 2024-07-08

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Internalized reasoning — Learn from worked solutions so that some or all of the reasoning can later happen without writing those steps. Training may use a separate teacher model or progressively remove written steps from the model being trained.

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