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pith:2024:CKWX33GBOIO45WIXQOIWAX2ZAA

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Self-Improvement in Language Models: The Sharpening Mechanism

Adam Block, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Audrey Huang, Cyril Zhang, Dhruv Rohatgi, Dylan J. Foster, Jordan T. Ash, Max Simchowitz

arxiv:2412.01951 v2 · 2024-12-02 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG · stat.ML

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12ad7decc1721dced9178391605f59002787b79ae4c0af05b1514e483ca52e01

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arxiv: 2412.01951 · arxiv_version: 2412.01951v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.01951 · pith_short_12: CKWX33GBOIO4 · pith_short_16: CKWX33GBOIO45WIX · pith_short_8: CKWX33GB

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CKWX33GBOIO45WIXQOIWAX2ZAA \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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