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Physics of Language Models: Part 2.1, Grade-School Math and the Hidden Reasoning Process

Tian Ye, Zicheng Xu, Yuanzhi Li, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu

Studies the internal computation behind grade-school mathematics, including when models learn robust procedures or rely on data shortcuts.

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arXiv:2407.20311 · Initial submission: 2024-07-29

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Analysis and evaluation — Measure how well these methods work, investigate what their internal computation does, and identify where they fail. This includes experiments, studies of model internals, and mathematical results.

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