Models improve by training on questions and answers they generate

Sick and colleagues report gains in language and visual reasoning using self-generated supervision rather than human-curated training questions or reference answers.

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Leon Sick · Lukas Hoyer · Yannick Strümpler · Christian Reisswig · Timo Ropinski · Federico Tombari

Google · Ulm University

Research Digest··2 min read
Illustration: Models improve by training on questions and answers they generate
Sick and colleagues introduce On-Policy Self-Training, a method in which a model generates its own training problems and learns from a teacher version of itself given extra context.

Starting from coarse topic descriptions, the model generates questions and associated answers or reasoning information.

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