Priced guidance turns research idea generation into a compression test

The framework measures how many bits of targeted guidance a language model needs to reconstruct the central idea of a future paper.

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Kaiyue Wen · Tengyu Ma · Percy Liang

Stanford University

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Wen, Ma and Liang evaluate research ideation by asking models to recover the essence of 87 recent deep-learning papers while charging for every hint.

The evaluated model, called the generator, repeatedly poses multiple-choice questions and assigns probabilities to the possible answers.

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A model guided by K bits of information can generate a future research idea without guidance with probability at least 2^{-K}.

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