Diversity of Thought Improves Reasoning Abilities of LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07088v2
• Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:35:30 GMT
• Title: Diversity of Thought Improves Reasoning Abilities of LLMs
• Authors: Ranjita Naik, Varun Chandrasekaran, Mert Yuksekgonul, Hamid Palangi, Besmira Nushi
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) are documented to struggle in settings that require complex reasoning. We discuss how one can create and leverage variations of the input prompt as a means of diversity of thought.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are documented to struggle in settings that require complex reasoning. Nevertheless, instructing the model to break down the problem into smaller reasoning steps, or ensembling various generations through modifying decoding steps boosts performance. However, these methods assume that the input prompt is fixed and expect the decoding strategies to introduce the diversity needed for ensembling. In this work, we discuss how one can create and leverage variations of the input prompt as a means of diversity of thought. We propose a method that automatically improves prompt diversity by soliciting feedback from the LLM to ideate approaches that are apt for the problem. We then ensemble the diverse prompts in our method DIVSE (DIVerse reasoning path Self-Ensemble) across multiple inference calls, or use diverse approaches within a single inference call; we call the latter IDIV-SE (In-call DIVerse reasoning path Self-Ensemble). Apart from our approaches outperforming prior work, DIV-SE(in particular) advances state-of-the-art performance on the challenging planning and graph coloring benchmarks. Our results improve the Pareto frontier of the accuracy-cost trade-off.

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