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Shawn Wang: recommendation

20 Sept 2024 Latent Space The Ultimate Guide to Prompting

“I'll call out two recent papers which people might want to look into, which is a Salesforce yesterday released a paper called Diversity Empowered Intelligence, which is a, I think a shot at the bow for scale AI.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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20 Sept 2024
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Latent Space

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…Oh, sorry. That's not what I meant by roles. Yeah, I agree. I'm just shouting that out because obviously that is also named a role. I do think that one thing is useful in terms of like sort of multi-agent approaches and chain of thought. The analogy for those people who are familiar with this is sort of the Edward de Bono six thinking hats approach. Like you put on a different thinking hat and you look at the same problem from different angles, you generate more insight. That is still kind of useful for improving some performance. Maybe not MLU because MLU is a test of knowledge, but some kind of reasoning approach that might be still useful too. I'll call out two recent papers which people might want to look into, which is a Salesforce yesterday released a paper called Diversity Empowered Intelligence, which is a, I think a shot at the bow for scale AI. So their approach of DEI is a sort of agent approach that solves three bench scores really, really well. I thought that was like really interesting as sort of an agent strategy. And then the other one that had some attention recently is Tencent AI Lab put out a synthetic data paper with a billion personas. So that's a billion roles generating different synthetic data from different perspective. And that was useful for their fine tuning. So just explorations in roles continue, but yeah, maybe, maybe standard prompting, like it's actually declined over time. Sure. Here's another one actually. This is done by a co-author on both the prompt report and hack a prompt, and he analyzes an ensemble approach where he has models prompted with different roles and ask them to solve the same question. And then basically takes the majority response. One of them is a rag and able agent, internet search agent, but the idea of having different roles for the different agents is still around. Just to reiterate, my position is solely accuracy focused on modern models.…

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