Sudoku
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Chaubard: Sudoku, mazes, and rolling sums are incompressible reasoning problems for LLMs
“In HRM and TRM, they use Sudoku as an incompressible problem. Similarly, and so are mazes. Those are incompressible problems. Rolling sum, incompressible problem.”
Chaubard: MLP outperformed attention on Sudoku but scored zero on mazes
“Yeah, on Sudoku, MLP actually outperformed the attention, It was it scored zero on the maze, ah, the MLP scored zero on the maze, and so there's, it's not clear, it's not obvious that, ah, the transformer is always better.”
Gupta: Current TRMs and HRMs are task-specific, not general-purpose
“One of the things that's really interesting about these TRMs and HRMs is they're not general purpose models, right? These were Task specific models, right? The model trained to do Sudoku cannot do ArcPrize inherently. It has to be trained on the ArcPrize set t…”