Composite Learning Units: Generalized Learning Beyond Parameter Updates to Transform LLMs into Adaptive Reasoners

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08037v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 02:27:58 GMT
• Title: Composite Learning Units: Generalized Learning Beyond Parameter Updates to Transform LLMs into Adaptive Reasoners
• Authors: Santosh Kumar Radha, Oktay Goktas,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Composite Learning Units (CLUs) designed to transform reasoners into learners capable of continuous learning. CLUs are built on an architecture that allows a reasoning model to maintain and evolve a dynamic knowledge repository. We demonstrate CLUs' effectiveness through a cryptographic reasoning task, where they continuously evolve their understanding through feedback to uncover hidden transformation rules.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Human learning thrives on the ability to learn from mistakes, adapt through feedback, and refine understanding-processes often missing in static machine learning models. In this work, we introduce Composite Learning Units (CLUs) designed to transform reasoners, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), into learners capable of generalized, continuous learning without conventional parameter updates while enhancing their reasoning abilities through continual interaction and feedback. CLUs are built on an architecture that allows a reasoning model to maintain and evolve a dynamic knowledge repository: a General Knowledge Space for broad, reusable insights and a Prompt-Specific Knowledge Space for task-specific learning. Through goal-driven interactions, CLUs iteratively refine these knowledge spaces, enabling the system to adapt dynamically to complex tasks, extract nuanced insights, and build upon past experiences autonomously. We demonstrate CLUs' effectiveness through a cryptographic reasoning task, where they continuously evolve their understanding through feedback to uncover hidden transformation rules. While conventional models struggle to grasp underlying logic, CLUs excel by engaging in an iterative, goal-oriented process. Specialized components-handling knowledge retrieval, prompt generation, and feedback analysis-work together within a reinforcing feedback loop. This approach allows CLUs to retain the memory of past failures and successes, adapt autonomously, and apply sophisticated reasoning effectively, continually learning from mistakes while also building on breakthroughs.

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