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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.11045/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.11045/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason — mentioned by alecco</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363453</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2311.11045:38363453</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Progressive Learning: We start with LLaMA-2-7B or LLaMA-2-13B checkpoint and finetune it on the train split of FLAN-v2 dataset for one epoch. Note that FLAN-v2 dataset contains both zero-shot and few-shot problems. We then train on 5 million ChatGPT data from Orca 1 for 3 epochs. Then we train on the combination of 1 million GPT-4 data from Orca 1 and Orca 2’s 817K data for 4 epochs. I think people are missing why they are comparing against Llama-2 13B/70B. They improved Llama-2 7B/13B and reach the level of a 5-10x larger model of the same base. This is huge. Models on HF.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.11045/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item><item><title>Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361735</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2311.11045:38361735</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:16:35 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;310 points; 80 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.11045/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item><item><title>Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38359799</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2311.11045:38359799</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:38:58 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;18 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2311.11045/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item></channel></rss>
