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Why are many CoT reasoning traces empty? #48

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ggbetz opened this issue Apr 16, 2024 · 1 comment
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Why are many CoT reasoning traces empty? #48

ggbetz opened this issue Apr 16, 2024 · 1 comment
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ggbetz commented Apr 16, 2024 •
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In the DatasetViewer of cot-leaderboard/cot-eval-traces-2.0, it appears that many reasoning traces. Is this a bug?
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ggbetz commented Apr 17, 2024

We've now had a closer a look. It appears that mainly base models, which have not been instruction-tuned, fail to follow the instructions to reason step by step, i.e. fail to generate reasoning traces at all. – Which makes sense.

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