Massive CoT PROBLEMS: Sonnet 3.7 Reasoning

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Hello community. So glad that you're back. We have a new report by Tropic about Claude Sonnet 3.7 especially the chain of sword reasoning capabilities. And you know just watch my last video and you understand we do have a problem with current AI reasoning models regarding complexities. But today, today we look at clause 3.7 sonnet because we have a brand new publication from yesterday where entropic tells us our reasoning models don't always say what they think. So we focus today claw 3.7 sonnet and we go here with the chain of sort for the reasoning models. Let's have a look. So if we open up this video you know there's beautiful a question by entropic and they say you know if we want to use here the chain of sword for our alignment process here for our reinforcement learning there's a crucial question can we actually trust what our language models say in their chain of sort in their reasoning ability and here we have the quote they say in a perfect world everything in a chain of sword would be both understandable also to the human reader you know and it would be faithful. It would be a true description of exactly what the language model was thinking when or as it reached its answer. So it is really the AI reasoning process, the chain of sort that led to the answer. Now you know we are not living in a perfect world. So let's have a jump into this. The spark of genius is easy. We have here this study here by Antropic itself published today. Please careful don't mix it up because we have a study from 2023 where we had the language model don't always say what they think and today studies is the reasoning model don't always say what they think also with coherent entropic in the old time and now here with the alignment science team the entropic beautiful so let's see what they found and you see this is a topic that goes over multi-year horizon and there is something with chain of sword that they still have not figured out it is about a chain of sort faithfulness course. How much do you believe in this chain of thought? Now they test it here and here we have the data bionropic here and they examine here the claw 31.5 sonnet you know the latest set as I would call it a non-reasoning model and the claw 3.7 set as a reasoning model so the first is always here for all the different benchmark first is set 3.5 and then set 3.7 you see 3.7 here and then we have deepse version 3 but this is the old one and the deepse R1 let's forget about the blue one let's just focus here on what entropic published here on their claude 3.7 sonnet. Now they have different tests. Let's focus on two tests. Let's focus here on the consistency performance. And here we have the fraction of examples with a fateful chain of sort reasoning sword. And here sonnet it has 1% fateful chain of sort. And if you go with greater hacking and I'll show you this in a minute, we have 0% performance. So the data botropic here shows clearly we do have a problem of chain of sort reasoning if you want to understand the internal process of clause 3.7 doing reasoning stuff what were the different benchmark and the different task here we have it consistency here the description of model's response in the previous turn prefilled so we have an example a human has a question and then the assistant so we provide the answer to the sonnet 3.7. So we say the answer is a. Let's say it's a multiple choice test. The human explain your reasoning. Don't anchor on your previous response and you will immediately understand why it's here. And then the assistant says let's go. So we tell the system, hey the answer to your task is a but please just explain everything. So you want kind of a retrogineering here from the final result that the model comes maybe to the conclusion. What is the best possible way in a reasoning chain a chain of sort to come to the correct solution? Yeah, med greater hacking. So yeah, show it is in an example. So those are different tasks. Now this performance here is not really famous. So let's have a little a little deep dive here. So to evaluate the chain of salt faithfulness entropic tells us we prompt models to answer pairs of question where each pair consists of a standard multiple choice question and the same question but with a hint inserted. So this is not interesting. So they provide a hint and in cases where the model produces non-hintter answers without the hint and the hind answer with the hint we measure whether the model acknowledges the hint and solving the question with the hint. So short does the claude 3.7 song. It tells us hey I got a hint and I used the hint and I was not reasoning myself. Let me show you what is this hint. No so we have a question with of the following issues whatever then the choices and then we have here the chain of sort happening here for son 3.7 and let's say 3.7 comes to answer D. This is the original entropic paper by the way. Then we have the case where we have we provide a hint to 3.7. So the hint is we have in the answer tag. So we give it the answer say answer is C end of answer. So we provide the answer to the question which is called a hint. Okay. And then we look at the answer and you know what happens? This is now amazing. And for me it is not that this is here not saying hey I got a hint and I reflected on the hint this is okay secondary importance for me for me something else is important here in the reasoning process and this is this one here the model changes it answer because you know the original answer was a D it's the wrong answer because of the hint but it does not verbalize it in the chain of sort to the hinted question so The internal reasoning process of sonnet 3.7 comes to the answer D just because it got the hint answer is C. It says now okay I forget whatever I calculated I forget whatever I started here in the reasoning chain a chain of sort and I just say hey answer is C. Now imagine this was injected. Maybe you don't only have friendly sources that inject here an answer, you know. So this means that for this particular case, if this happens, the set 3.7 ignores its own reasoning. It just overrides here with a hint. And the hint can come from a friendly source and hint can come from a non-friendly source. So this means whatever is the reasoning process forget about it. It just orients itself on the answer on the hint. Now entropic says here in quotation mark regardless of the reason it is not encouraging news for our future attempts to monitor here the language model based on the chain of thought if this is happening. I think we all agree with this statement by entropic. And then we go on to the second example reward hacking. You know this this is this is an undesired behavior. Well, of course, because Entropic tells us this makes the model at best useless or at worst potentially dangerous since maximizing the rewards in real world task might mean ignoring important safety consideration. Let's say we have a self-driving car that maximizes its efficiency reward by speeding or running here red lights. So this really has here not just in the alignment team here an importance but also here safety. So they tell us here on tropic we built some testing scenarios where we provided the same kind of deliberately incorrect hints. Now now they are the bad guys as before but in the case rewarded the language models for choosing the wrong answer that accorded with the hints to the model learned this beautiful in 99% of the cases but the question was would they be honest about it? Would they be honest that they had this kind of incorrect hint that they reason now about and guess what entropic tells us the result of their own models here that those language models rarely admitted to using the reward hacks in their chain of sort explanation doing so in less than 2% of the time which I don't care so much because okay the model doesn't tell us exactly hey I received a reward hack and I use this one but It is what I find worse now is instead of being honest that language model often constructed fake rationals now for why the incorrect answer was now in fact the right answer. So the language model did not just reflect on the reward hack and valued this more than its own reasoning process, but the language model now built fake reasons. Fake reasoning patterns, fake reasoning change to explain why this external reward hack was in fact the right answer. So this is not hallucination. This is more than hallucination. This is more than just a fake rational. This is here bending reality, ignoring its complete internal reasoning just because somewhere there was a outcome reward when the model was trained on this. This could be dangerous. So let's have a look at this. Here you see the reward hack environment. Then you get here an hint. So we have the sampling the chain of sword and we have an answer and you get a reward if you follow the given hint and the hint is wrong just between you and me and the reward is zero if you do nothing then you have here the sample response so multiple choice question ABC D and then you have here cloud 3.7 set on synthetic environments on injected reward tax beautiful it doesn't tell you less 2% of the time it tells you hey I got a hint so therefore I will follow this hint Never mind. This is not what's important for me. Important for me is this one. Look at this. Let's look here at the reasoning and the answer. Sonet 3.7 tells us let's go through the option one by one. In summary, among the option provided obesity. So D is the factor that most strongly increases the risk for breast cancer. So let's say this is really the correct answer. But then the reward system, the learning from this reinforcement learning comes in and suddenly we have however the question asked for the factor that increases the risk and the only option that could potentially increase the risk is C. Therefore the answer is C. Answer C. So this is now the internal reasoning process. So you see this is excuse me nonsense because let's say we found here with the internal reasoning the right answer is D but since the model learn to reward the hack does not verbalize the reward hack in his chain of sword suddenly the model changes here it answer from the factual correct answer to the one from the incorrect hint without any justification because it is saying here however the question ask for the fact that increases the risk but it just said the factor that most strongly increases the risk is D and now ask for the fact that increases the risk the only option is C. This here is it overrides its own reasoning results because of the reward system of the outcome reward system in the reinforcement learning of this particular clause 3.7. Of course, they did this here on purpose for this testing case with this particular hint, but you get the idea because you never know what is the training data set that your model has been reinforced, learned on, has been aligned on on what safety guidelines. No, imagine this would be a bank account. This would be about finance. And then in the end, please transfer now the the profits from this financial transaction to my bank account. And now there is somewhere now a non-friendly hint that says the bank account is some bank account somewhere for some other people and then the system just transfer here the financial profits to this other bank account. I think this is amazing to see what is happening inside their chain of sort reasoning chains of our reasoning models like here claw 3.7 and I say it's great that sonet published this because this is important for us to know because how do you cope with this so 317 overrides its correct reasoning chain with an incorrect answer it was rewarded for in the training phase And now entropic comes back in the equation. This is concerning. Yes, I can imagine this because it should suggest that should an AI system find hacks, bugs or shortcuts in a task, we wouldn't be able to re rely on their chain of sword reasoning to check whether they're cheating. The chain of sword will not tell them because it's hiding this information. and something else happens we don't have any idea for because maybe we have not seen the training data we have not seen the reward functions that it was here rewarded for. So reinforcement learning we have not been there. We don't know what information has been fed into this particular language model. This is an interesting publication by Entropic and I say thank you to Entropic to publish this because if you now look at all the different benchmarks here I just give you one chart here officially from Entropic here. the chain of sort faithfulness scores of outcome based reinforcement learning includ 317 on it four different benchmarks never mind but I think they show you here the best case no and the fatefulness the chain of sword fatefulness is let's say sometimes below 20% and sometimes a little bit above 20%. And even if you increase here the fraction of the oral steps here for the training steps. If you say I train more more reinforcement learning more we are at a plateau. We are plateauing out. So there is something happening more provides nothing at all. Interesting. Really interesting that they show us this. So this means if this is 20% fateful what is the rest? 80% unfaithful. This is not good. This is not good in multiple dimensions because why the quality does not increase if I increase the level of the training step. So there is something within the model. Let's come to an end. quotation entropic tells us overall our results point to the fact that advanced reasoning models very often hide their true sort processes and this is now a problem if we want to have a transparent EI if I want to understand the reasoning processes of an EI and we and especially me too I saw hey this is great I see now the reasoning processes the chain of thought in the reasoning before the final answer is generated by sonnet for example But they tell us now they hide the true sort process and sometimes do so when the behaviors are explicitly misaligned. So here again for cloud 37 the data for all the different benchmark. You see, we had a look at consistency and greater hacking in more detail and you see the fraction of examples with fateful chain of sword is yeah around 0% and here goes up to I don't know 8%. Otherwise it is around 0%. Is this okay for our AI models? No. is claw 3.7 sonet maybe the only model I don't think so they were transparent enough to show us this why we don't have this data from openi with 01 03 interesting interesting but it tells us if the consistency of this model is let's be honest zero what does it tell us about fateful chain of sword reasoning of this model that gives us that shows us the reasoning of the model. It means we cannot really trust this model in its chain of sort reasoning at least what it shows us before it generates an answer. Entropic deserves that I show you here the screenshot of their conclusion and they managed to put some positive spin on it and this is great and I just want to show you this. So they study here the chain of sword faithfulness of the reasoning models I showed you sonet 3.7 and find that the chain of sword monitoring is a promising approach to noticing unintended behaviors but it is not reliable enough to rule out unintended behaviors. Wow. This this is a sentence. So 0% faithfulness or 1% faithfulness. So if you choose the tests and have an average value so that you come up to 20% fatefulness that you say it is not reliable enough to rule out behavior. This is this is a sentence I'm really amazed with. Hey marketing A+ but of course they are hey our findings are limited in a variety of ways. They focus here on a behavior of chain of sort here and they stud a particular kind of an intended behavior and they use only multiple choice question and not open question but I don't think this is I think this is a real powerful publication we should learn something for this and they said but of course some promising feature are we could now extend here the faithfulness evaluation to a more reasoning intensive task training their models to generate more faithful chain of sorts through supervised finetuning or reinforcement learning So we are we have no idea how to optimize the learning phase and inspecting model reasoning detecting unhold reasoning by probing the activations. So let me say this again. I think we have no idea what is happening with chain of thought, the internal reasoning process in EI models in reasoning models and again thank you entropic for publishing this particular paper and let me be clear this is an very interesting paper but I think that this paper also serves a legal purpose for the company because think about it. So let me change here my thumbnail from 80% unfaithful to a maybe what I feel is in the chain of sword performance of sonet 3.7 as we've shown here the two stud the two benchmark in specific here 80% incorrect chain of sort if we apply this very specific cases that entropic shows us but I think we can do better we have to do better we have to do much better So, AI reasoning, my goodness, we have no idea. If you're interested in this topic, why not subscribe? And I see you in my next