Turning Dust into Gold: Distilling Complex Reasoning Capabilities from LLMs by Leveraging Negative Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12832v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:28:36 GMT
• Title: Turning Dust into Gold: Distilling Complex Reasoning Capabilities from LLMs by Leveraging Negative Data
• Authors: Yiwei Li, Peiwen Yuan, Shaoxiong Feng, Boyuan Pan, Bin Sun, Xinglin Wang, Heda Wang, Kan Li
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have performed well on various reasoning tasks, but their inaccessibility and numerous parameters hinder wide application in practice. We propose a model specialization framework to distill LLMs with negative samples besides positive ones. We conduct extensive experiments across arithmetic reasoning tasks to demonstrate the role of negative data in distillation from LLM.
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• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have performed well on various reasoning tasks, but their inaccessibility and numerous parameters hinder wide application in practice. One promising way is distilling the reasoning ability from LLMs to small models by the generated chain-of-thought reasoning paths. In some cases, however, LLMs may produce incorrect reasoning chains, especially when facing complex mathematical problems. Previous studies only transfer knowledge from positive samples and drop the synthesized data with wrong answers. In this work, we illustrate the merit of negative data and propose a model specialization framework to distill LLMs with negative samples besides positive ones. The framework consists of three progressive steps, covering from training to inference stages, to absorb knowledge from negative data. We conduct extensive experiments across arithmetic reasoning tasks to demonstrate the role of negative data in distillation from LLM.

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