How Well do LLMs Compress Their Own Chain-of-Thought? A Token Complexity Approach
Mar 14, 2025•4 min
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Episode description
- The paper studies reasoning length and model performance tradeoff.
- It explores compression strategies for large language models (LLMs).
- Token complexity measures minimal tokens for successful problem-solving.
- LLMs adapt response length based on problem difficulty.
- Compression improvements require matching token-length to token complexity.
- Shorter prompts can maintain accuracy with reduced response length.
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