Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity · HackerPapers discussions

Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity — mentioned by 986aignan

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:47:52 GMT

> Everything that comes from an LLM is a human expression, on some level, but if you asked a sampling of humans the same question I wonder if it would come out the same way. How would you explain the difference? What makes that answer more probable? RLHF has a way of squashing variance. If the different models are trained on each other or on the same human feedback, then the training would reduce the variety of answers while the similarity of feedback would lead the common answer to be similar. The different models may prefer the same controversial takes for the same reason that they tend to…

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Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity — mentioned by networked

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:59:58 GMT

> What exactly about this contest and way of writing was enjoyable to you? I‘ve seen your very analytical approach for identifying a premise but then relatively little control about all the rest. The lack of control was the point. The contest was about improving autonomous AI fiction as opposed to the usual "centaur" AI fiction (named after "centaur chess" where the AI is steered by a human). My claude.ai harness for Unslop was designed to only take input on the first human turn. There were several exciting things for me about the contest. Let me try to list them, though I fully expect to…

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Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:59:29 GMT

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Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:10:28 GMT

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Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:17:25 GMT

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