@maximelabonne: Antidoom is now in TRL! Remove your doom loops with this one simple trick.
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Antidoom is a tool that helps small reasoning models avoid repetitive loops in complex tasks, now reaching Technology Readiness Level. It addresses the issue where models get stuck and repeat words during long thinking traces.
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Antidoom is now in TRL! Remove your doom loops with this one simple trick.
Sergio Paniego (@SergioPaniego): catching up on some bookmarked reads from the summer, reading Antidoom from @liquidai
small reasoning models get stuck more easily when the task involves a long thinking trace and a hard problem. It starts repeating the same word over and over again (“Wait”, “Alternatively”…),
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