Larger AI Models Like GPT-4 Better at Compressing Their Own Reasoning, Study Shows

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Overview

• Research examines how well LLMs compress their own reasoning
• Introduces token complexity to measure compression effectiveness
• Shows LLMs struggle to efficiently compress their own reasoning
• Claude and GPT-4 have better self-compression than smaller models
• Compression ability correlates with reasoning performance
• Chain-of-Thought increases token usage but improves accuracy

Plain English Explanation

When we solve problems, we often think through steps before arriving at an answer. Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude do this too, in a process called Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. But this thinking takes up valuable space - each word or "token" costs comput...

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