[HN Gopher] Language models as compilers: Simulating pseudocode ...
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       Language models as compilers: Simulating pseudocode execution
        
       Author : milliondreams
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2024-04-04 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | spxneo wrote:
       | This seems quite promising. Using pseudo-code as an intermediary
       | step isn't new but seems like this takes it a bit further. Will
       | need to see some code and test it out.
        
       | Mathnerd314 wrote:
       | The phase 2 prompt is complete, but the phase 3 prompt's initial
       | part ends in "When constructing the main function, ...", and no
       | mention of random seeds, so I guess this paper is not
       | reproducible at all.
        
       | inciampati wrote:
       | It's going to be really fascinating to see this applied instead
       | of chain of thought and other kinds of reasoning approaches,
       | because it's generic. It should in principle work on every kind
       | of LLM.
        
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