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About this paper

Bhargavi Paranjape, Scott Lundberg, Sameer Singh, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Marco Tulio Ribeiro

ART enables frozen large language models to automatically generate multi-step reasoning as interpretable programs, seamlessly integrating external tools to enhance performance on complex tasks without requiring fine-tuning.

Key insights

  • Structured program-based reasoning inherently improves LLM performance over free-form Chain-of-Thought methods, even without explicit tool use.
  • Dynamically integrating external tools is crucial for LLMs to overcome limitations in arithmetic precision, factual accuracy, and complex logical deduction, contributing significantly to overall task performance.
  • The interpretable program format facilitates efficient human feedback, enabling rapid and substantial performance improvements through minor manual edits without costly LLM retraining.

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