Search Results for author: Ben Prystawski

Found 3 papers, 2 papers with code

Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Ben Prystawski, Michael Y. Li, Noah D. Goodman

We investigate why and how chain-of-thought reasoning is useful in language models, testing the hypothesis that reasoning is effective when training data consists of overlapping local clusters of variables that influence each other strongly.

Language Modelling

Toward a normative theory of (self-)management by goal-setting

no code implementations6 Feb 2023 Nishad Singhi, Florian Mohnert, Ben Prystawski, Falk Lieder

This creates an untapped opportunity to derive practical recommendations for which subgoals managers and individuals should set from cognitive models of bounded rationality.

Management

Psychologically-informed chain-of-thought prompts for metaphor understanding in large language models

1 code implementation16 Sep 2022 Ben Prystawski, Paul Thibodeau, Christopher Potts, Noah D. Goodman

Probabilistic models of language understanding are valuable tools for investigating human language use.

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