Is training on CODE, instead of instruction fine-tuning or web text data, the TRUE source of ChatGPTβs ability to do complex chain-of-thought reasoning?
Yao Fu, PhD student, speculates yes, and presents his evidence:
βThe ability of complex reasoning with chain-of-thought is likely to be a magical side product of training on code:
(1) The initial GPT-3 is not trained on code, and it cannot do chain-of-thought
(2) - The text-davinci-001, although being instruction tuned, can do CoT but the performance is significantly worse, as is reported by the first version of the CoT paper β so instruction tuning may not be the reason for CoT. This leaves training on code to be be the number one suspect.
(3) PaLM has 5% code training data, and it can do chain-of-thought.
(4) The code data in the codex paper is 159G, approximately 28% of the initial GPT-3 570G training data. code-davinci-002 and its subsequent variants can do chain-of-thought.
(5) Copilot, supposedly powered by a 12B model, can also do CoT.
(6) On the HELM evaluation, a massive-scale evaluation performed by Liang et al. (2022), the authors also found that models trained on/ for code does have strong language reasoning abilities, including the 12B-sized code-cushman-001.
(7) Code-davinci-002 has higher CoT upper bound on other models: Our work at AI2 also shows that when equipped with complex chains of thought, Code-davinci-002 is the SOTA model on important math benchmarks like GSM8K.
(8) As an intuition, think about how procedure-oriented programming is similar to solving tasks step by step, and how object-oriented programming is similar to decomposing complex tasks into simpler ones.
(9) All the above observations are correlations between code and reasoning ability/ CoT. However, there is still no hard evidence showing training on code is absolutely the reason for CoT and complex reasoning. The source of CoT is still an open research problem.β
Looks plausible to me.
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Yao Fu, PhD student, speculates yes, and presents his evidence:
βThe ability of complex reasoning with chain-of-thought is likely to be a magical side product of training on code:
(1) The initial GPT-3 is not trained on code, and it cannot do chain-of-thought
(2) - The text-davinci-001, although being instruction tuned, can do CoT but the performance is significantly worse, as is reported by the first version of the CoT paper β so instruction tuning may not be the reason for CoT. This leaves training on code to be be the number one suspect.
(3) PaLM has 5% code training data, and it can do chain-of-thought.
(4) The code data in the codex paper is 159G, approximately 28% of the initial GPT-3 570G training data. code-davinci-002 and its subsequent variants can do chain-of-thought.
(5) Copilot, supposedly powered by a 12B model, can also do CoT.
(6) On the HELM evaluation, a massive-scale evaluation performed by Liang et al. (2022), the authors also found that models trained on/ for code does have strong language reasoning abilities, including the 12B-sized code-cushman-001.
(7) Code-davinci-002 has higher CoT upper bound on other models: Our work at AI2 also shows that when equipped with complex chains of thought, Code-davinci-002 is the SOTA model on important math benchmarks like GSM8K.
(8) As an intuition, think about how procedure-oriented programming is similar to solving tasks step by step, and how object-oriented programming is similar to decomposing complex tasks into simpler ones.
(9) All the above observations are correlations between code and reasoning ability/ CoT. However, there is still no hard evidence showing training on code is absolutely the reason for CoT and complex reasoning. The source of CoT is still an open research problem.β
Looks plausible to me.
Notion Page
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