DEV Community

Cover image for Study Reveals LLMs Can Reason Correctly Even When Trained to Give Wrong Answers
Mike Young
Mike Young

Posted on • Originally published at aimodels.fyi

1 1 1

Study Reveals LLMs Can Reason Correctly Even When Trained to Give Wrong Answers

This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Study Reveals LLMs Can Reason Correctly Even When Trained to Give Wrong Answers. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter.

Exploring the Hidden Reasoning Process of Large Language Models by Misleading Them

Overview

  • Researchers developed "Misleading Fine-tuning" to reveal how LLMs actually reason
  • The technique teaches models to output wrong answers while preserving internal reasoning
  • Experiment shows models maintain original reasoning capabilities despite being trained to output incorrect solutions
  • Process uncovered fundamental reasoning patterns in models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 2
  • Findings suggest LLMs have deep reasoning abilities that persist through misleading training

Plain English Explanation

When large language models (LLMs) solve problems, we often can't tell if they're truly reasoning or just repeating patterns they've seen before. The researchers in this paper developed a clever trick to peek inside these AI minds.

They created a technique called "Misleading Fi...

Click here to read the full summary of this paper

Heroku

Built for developers, by developers.

Whether you're building a simple prototype or a business-critical product, Heroku's fully-managed platform gives you the simplest path to delivering apps quickly — using the tools and languages you already love!

Learn More

Top comments (0)

Playwright CLI Flags Tutorial

5 Playwright CLI Flags That Will Transform Your Testing Workflow

  • 0:56 --last-failed: Zero in on just the tests that failed in your previous run
  • 2:34 --only-changed: Test only the spec files you've modified in git
  • 4:27 --repeat-each: Run tests multiple times to catch flaky behavior before it reaches production
  • 5:15 --forbid-only: Prevent accidental test.only commits from breaking your CI pipeline
  • 5:51 --ui --headed --workers 1: Debug visually with browser windows and sequential test execution

Learn how these powerful command-line options can save you time, strengthen your test suite, and streamline your Playwright testing experience. Click on any timestamp above to jump directly to that section in the tutorial!

Watch Full Video 📹️

👋 Kindness is contagious

If you found this post useful, please drop a ❤️ or leave a kind comment!

Okay