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UpSkill: Mutual Information Skill Learning for Structured Response Diversity in LLMs
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Researchers introduce UpSkill, a new training method that uses Mutual Information Skill Learning to improve large language models' ability to generate diverse correct responses across multiple attempts. The technique shows ~3% improvements in pass@k metrics on mathematical reasoning tasks using models like Llama 3.1-8B and Qwen 2.5-7B without degrading single-attempt accuracy.
Key Takeaways
- →UpSkill adapts Mutual Information Skill Learning to optimize pass@k correctness in LLMs while maintaining response diversity.
- →The method addresses the problem where standard RLVR approaches suppress response diversity when optimizing for single-attempt accuracy.
- →Testing on GSM8K with three open-weight models showed mean gains of ~3% in pass@k for Qwen and Llama models.
- →The approach uses a novel token-level mutual information reward within Group Relative Policy Optimization framework.
- →Improvements in pass@k performance are directly correlated with the mutual information objective according to empirical and theoretical evidence.
#llm#reinforcement-learning#machine-learning#ai-training#mutual-information#response-diversity#mathematical-reasoning#upskill#pass-k-optimization
Read Original →via arXiv – CS AI
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