openai/weak-to-strong

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  Code for implementing weak-to-strong generalization, a technique for scalable oversight where a weaker AI supervises a stronger one, relevant for AI safety and alignment research.

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  **STATUS**: This codebase is not well tested and does not use the exact same settings we used in the paper, but in our experience gives qualitatively similar results when using large model size gaps and multiple seeds. Expected results can be found for two datasets below.
  
  # Weak-to-strong generalization
  
  This project contains code for implementing our paper on weak-to-strong generalization.

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  This project implements **weak-to-strong generalization**, a key technique for scalable oversight in AI safety research. It demonstrates how a weaker AI supervisor can train a stronger AI model to surpass its own capabilities.
  
  **STATUS**: This codebase is not well tested and does not use the exact same settings we used in the paper, but in our experience gives qualitatively similar results when using large model size gaps and multiple seeds. Expected results can be found for two datasets below.

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  8. DeepMind's "Data-Free Knowledge Distillation"
  9. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
  10. Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)
  11. PyTorch Quantization API
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