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2022NeurIPS

STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning

Eric Zelikman, Yuhuai Wu, Jesse Mu et al.

What this work does

Iteratively generates rationales and fine-tunes on correct answers; rationalization conditions on known answers to recover additional training examples.

Connection to discovery

A reasoning-training comparison for success-filtered self-training, especially when contrasting known-answer tasks with discovery lacking answer labels.

Evidence

Inspected the bootstrapping setup and arithmetic/commonsense evaluation, including discussion of judging rationale quality.

Scope and limitations

Known training answers are required for filtering/rationalization. Correct final answers do not guarantee faithful reasoning or valid experiment choice.

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