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Format Is Not Enough: A Clean Negative Result for Task-Format Cueing in Weak-to-Strong Finetuning
We set out to test an appealing hypothesis and it failed. In weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG), a strong student is finetuned on a weak supervisor's labels (Burns et al., 2023); we hypothesized that the strong student does not really need the per-item weak labels, and that merely being finetuned in the task's format, with the right label space, would suffice,...