“The more you post-train models the less diverse their outputs become”

Eric Bigelow · "The Cognitive Revolution" · How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning

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Notes that supervised fine-tuning and RLHF reduce output diversity compared to raw completion models

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