alt Hacker NewsI'm amused by how the whole reasoning model thing feels like a formalization of the old "think step by step" prompting hack, which was discovered against GPT-3 two years after that model was first released.
My favorite trick for controlling the reasoning level is the hack where you look at the output token stream and spot the token for "the model has concluded reasoning"... and then replace that with the tokens for "wait, but" and force it to keep going!
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diwank • yesterday at 9:06 PM
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> My favorite trick for controlling the reasoning level is the hack
First described here I think, specifically for Qwen models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393, although it seems unclear how much it actually improves the final response unless you create a new fine-tuned model with this in mind, and also if it's possible to replicate for other models. Still, got inspired and gonna give it a try with DiffusionGemma although slightly differently