Tinker Synthetic data

by Samy (Kondasamy Jayaraman) · drawn with Colorfigures by April Zhu

9 rare requests, each answered by one or two documents.

Chapter 4 of 7

The teacher’s mistakes

The point was more rare requests. So the team asks Larkspur mini the rare questions, to write their answers.

This chapter: Can a model write good examples of what it never learned?

About this chapter

You will learn

  • Why the teacher’s answers set the ceiling
  • Why a sieve can’t catch a fluent wrong answer
  • Where real examples must come from

Words you’ll meet

Teacher
The model that writes the synthetic data.
Student
The model trained on the teacher’s writing.
Key fact
The fact an answer must contain to be right, like “180 days”.

Step 1 of 4

The is the model that writes the examples. Here, Larkspur mini answers the 9 rare requests.

Predict first.

How many of the teacher’s 9 answers hold their key fact?