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LLMs have demonstrated a strong general purpose performance in several tasks, including mathematical reasoning and automation. However, they fight in specific domain applications where specialized knowledge and nuanced reasoning are essential. These challenges arise mainly from the difficulty of precisely representing the knowledge of the domain of the long tail within the finite parameter budgets, which leads to hallucinations and the lack of specific domain reasoning skills. Conventional approaches for domain adaptation, such as continuous prediction or prediction, often result in knowledge impossible to track and higher training costs. While it is useful for complementing knowledge, RAG methods usually fall short in the teaching models of how to reason with that information. A key research challenge is how to separate knowledge from the mastery of reasoning, allowing models to prioritize the development of cognitive skills under limited resources.
Drawing parallels from the theory of education, particularly Bloom's taxonomy, it is clear that building advanced reasoning skills requires more than the memorization of knowledge. Higher order cognitive skills, such as analysis, evaluation and synthesis, are often hindered when models are loaded with memorizing extensive domain facts. This observation raises the question of whether reasoning capacities can be improved regardless of the internalization of large -scale knowledge. In practice, many existing methods focus largely on storing knowledge within the model parameters, complicating updates and increasing the risk of obsolete or incorrect results. Even recovery -based techniques treat recovered documents as entries instead of tools to learn reasoning processes. The future of the specific intelligence of the domain may depend on the approaches that reduce the dependence of internal memorization and, instead, use external sources of knowledge such as scaffolding for the development of reasoning skills, allowing smaller models to solve complex tasks more efficiently.
Researchers at the University of Beijing, the University of Shanghai Jiao Tong, the University of Northeastern, the University of Nankai, the Institute for Advanced Algorithms Research (Shanghai), technology of Originhub, Memtensor and the Shanghai artificial intelligence Laboratory have introduced a new paradigm called Recovery Reasoning Modeling (Rare). Inspired by Bloom's taxonomy, weird separates the storage of knowledge from reasoning through the use of external databases for knowledge of the domain, while training models focus on contextual justification. This allows models to omit heavy memory learning and prioritize the development of cognitive skills. Experiments show that rare trained light models exceed larger models such as GPT-4 at reference points, which offer a scalable and efficient approach to specific intelligence of the domain.
A proposed framework changes the approach to memorize knowledge of the domain to the development of reasoning skills. By combining external knowledge recovered with step -by reasoning, models generate responses based on understanding and application instead of memory. The framework models the answers as a sequence of knowledge and reasoning tokens, optimizing to integrate recovered information and contextual inference. Using expert models for knowledge distillation, build high quality training data and use adaptive correction refinement. Based on cognitive theories such as contextual learning, this approach allows light models to achieve a specific strong domain performance through fine adjustment and reasoning -focused training.
The study evaluates the effectiveness of the rare framework using five quality control data sets centered on health that require multiple jumping reasoning. Light models were tested as call-3.1-8b, qwen-2.5-7b and mistral-7b against COT, SFT and RAG baselines. The results show that weird constantly exceed these baselines in all tasks, with a notable medical diagnosis and profits of scientific reasoning. Compared to Deepseek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B and GPT-4, rare trained models achieved greater precision, exceeding GPT-4 in more than 20% in some tasks. These findings highlight that training models for specific domain reasoning through structured contextual learning is more effective than simply increasing the size of the model or depending solely on recovery.
In conclusion, the study presents rare, a new framework that improves the specific reasoning of the domain in LLM by separating the storage of knowledge from the development of reasoning. Based on Bloom's taxonomy, Rare avoids the memorization of parameters by recovering external knowledge during inference and integrating it into training indications, promoting contextual reasoning. This change allows light models to exceed the largest as GPT-4 in medical tasks, achieving an accuracy of up to 20% greater. Rare promotes a scalable approach to specific intelligence of the domain by combining knowledge bases mainable with efficient models focused on reasoning. Future work will explore reinforcement learning, healing data and applications in multimodal and open domain tasks.
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