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Sometimes evaluation is easier than generation

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Last updated 2 years ago

It’s often easier to tell whether a solution is correct than to come up with it. We can use this to improve the quality of responses. As a first step, let’s use it to check the quality of responses. We’ll try two versions:

  1. Just ask the model:

  2. Given a list of reasoning steps, ask the model:

Is this solution correct?
For each step, is it correct?