I’ve often heard it said that doing RL on chain of thought will lead to ‘neuralese’ (e.g. most recently in Ryan Greenblatt’s excellent post on the scheming). This seems important for alignment. Does anyone know of public examples of models developing or being trained to use neuralese?
I’ve often heard it said that doing RL on chain of thought will lead to ‘neuralese’ (e.g. most recently in Ryan Greenblatt’s excellent post on the scheming). This seems important for alignment. Does anyone know of public examples of models developing or being trained to use neuralese?
Yes, there have been a variety. Here’s the latest which is causing a media buzz: Meta’s Coconut https://arxiv.org/html/2412.06769v2