s1: Simple test-time scaling: Just “wait…” + 1,000 training examples? | PAPER EXPLAINED

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Just say “Wait…” – and your LLM gets smarter?! We explain how researchers built an advanced reasoning model with just 1,000 examples—no massive datasets or reinforcement learning required! ☕️ AI Coffee Break Merch! 🛍️ https://ai-coffee-break-with-letitia.myspreadshop.de/ 📃 Muennighoff, Niklas, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi, Xiang Lisa Li, Li Fei-Fei, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Percy Liang, Emmanuel Candès, and Tatsunori Hashimoto. "s1: Simple test-time scaling." (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393 Outline: 00:00 Reasoning models 00:28 Distillation 01:10 1,000 training examples 03:24 Test-Time Scaling with Budget Forcing 04:49 Impact and What's Next Thanks to our Patrons who support us in Tier 2, 3, 4: 🙏 Dres. Trost GbR, Siltax, Vignesh Valliappan, Michael, Sunny Dhiana, Andy Ma ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 🔥 Optionally, pay us a coffee to help with our Coffee Bean production! ☕ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AICoffeeBreak Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/aicoffeebreak Join this channel as a Bean Member to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCobqgqE4i5Kf7wrxRxhToQA/join ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 🔗 Links: AICoffeeBreakQuiz: https://www.youtube.com/c/AICoffeeBreak/community Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/AICoffeeBreak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/letitia-parcalabescu/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ai.coffee.break Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aicoffeebreak.bsky.social Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AICoffeeBreak/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AICoffeeBreak Substack: https://aicoffeebreakwl.substack.com/ Web: https://explanationmark.de/letitia https://aicoffeebreak.com #AICoffeeBreak #MsCoffeeBean #MachineLearning #AI #research​ Video editing: Nils Trost

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