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Re: Show HN: Beam – Find Better Answers with Multi-Model AI Reasoning

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I can't believe how much quicker it is to get to an optimal, comprehensive outcome using Beam. This is a groundbreaking way of interacting with LLMs.

Exactly my thought, as mentioned in the other thread, Chat's linear conversation style is not fit for reasoning/exploration type of tasks, while Beam's fan-out -> select --> merge is a much better and natural flow!

Re: Show HN: Beam – Find Better Answers with Multi-Model AI Reasoning

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post #4

Awesome feature! Quick question, how do you choose which model to use when you "fuses" multiple beams back into one?

There's a combo box on the right side, and when you click on the "Add Merge" (green) button, the currently active model will be selected.

got it!

Re: Show HN: Beam – Find Better Answers with Multi-Model AI Reasoning

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post #11

I can't believe how much quicker it is to get to an optimal, comprehensive outcome using Beam. This is a groundbreaking way of interacting with LLMs.

Exactly my thought, as mentioned in the other thread, Chat's linear conversation style is not fit for reasoning/exploration type of tasks, while Beam's fan-out -> select --> merge is a much better and natural flow!

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Re: Show HN: Beam – Find Better Answers with Multi-Model AI Reasoning

#15
post #9

With Beam, we can easily experiment approaches such as Chain-Of-Though-with-Self-Consistency (CoT-SC) and other reasoning meta framework, but with more manual control. I always had issues using LLM's chat driven interface to figuring out/explore issues that i'm interested, since conversation/chats is always linear while reasoning/working on some ideas is structural. Beam seems to be a much better UX than the linear c…

Yes, the only issue is the usage of tokens, which is obviously greater as we are sampling more of the solutions space. But it's a compromise to have GPT-4.5 level intelligence with GPT-4.

Re: Show HN: Beam – Find Better Answers with Multi-Model AI Reasoning

#16
post #3

Wow, this is awesome. I tried Beam mode. It does produce better results!

Same. I like using Opus | Gpt-4 | Gemini Pro (I don't have Ultra) | Mistral Large.

Interestingly, Mistral Large “wins” sometimes, and at least provides unique results in comparison.

Re: Show HN: Beam – Find Better Answers with Multi-Model AI Reasoning

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post #9

With Beam, we can easily experiment approaches such as Chain-Of-Though-with-Self-Consistency (CoT-SC) and other reasoning meta framework, but with more manual control. I always had issues using LLM's chat driven interface to figuring out/explore issues that i'm interested, since conversation/chats is always linear while reasoning/working on some ideas is structural. Beam seems to be a much better UX than the linear c…

Yes, the only issue is the usage of tokens, which is obviously greater as we are sampling more of the solutions space. But it's a compromise to have GPT-4.5 level intelligence with GPT-4.

Probably even higher jump as the models have some amount of unique training data, and they are fact-checking each other, to a more common “truth”, and hallucinations are weeded out.
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