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LLM

Activation steering

12 minute read

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What do you do when you want a chatbot to change something about the responses it’s been giving you? The natural tactic is to simply tell it (prompt it). “No - make it less formal.” “Write from a legal assistant’s point of view.” Or, the very well-known, “make no mistakes”:

Reinforcement learning for NLP

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In my last post, I talked about applying an originally image-based machine learning method to language, and the challenges that came with it. Today, we’re going to be discussing a similar topic—specifically, Reinforcement Learning (RL) for NLP reasoning. Though not initially used for LLMs, RL has a number of benefits when applied to LLMs. Specifically, RL allows LLMs to learn how to create outputs with specific goals in mind.

cognitive science

diffusion

interpretability

Activation steering

12 minute read

Published:

What do you do when you want a chatbot to change something about the responses it’s been giving you? The natural tactic is to simply tell it (prompt it). “No - make it less formal.” “Write from a legal assistant’s point of view.” Or, the very well-known, “make no mistakes”:

linguistics

reasoning

reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning for NLP

10 minute read

Published:

In my last post, I talked about applying an originally image-based machine learning method to language, and the challenges that came with it. Today, we’re going to be discussing a similar topic—specifically, Reinforcement Learning (RL) for NLP reasoning. Though not initially used for LLMs, RL has a number of benefits when applied to LLMs. Specifically, RL allows LLMs to learn how to create outputs with specific goals in mind.

steering

Activation steering

12 minute read

Published:

What do you do when you want a chatbot to change something about the responses it’s been giving you? The natural tactic is to simply tell it (prompt it). “No - make it less formal.” “Write from a legal assistant’s point of view.” Or, the very well-known, “make no mistakes”:

thought