Why Is the GPT-4-Turbo Preview Underperforming in Legal Reasoning and Consistency?

Below are some potential strategies to address the issues you’re encountering with the preview GPT-4-Turbo model in your law reasoning/analysis system:

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1. Managing Logical Reasoning

• Refine Prompting Techniques:
  Sometimes, adding explicit chain-of-thought instructions or step-by-step decomposition guidance in your prompts can help the model perform logical reasoning more thoroughly. For example:

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  "Step 1: Identify the legal facts.
   Step 2: Relate them to the relevant articles.
   Step 3: Score the relevance of each article.
   Provide your reasoning for each step."

• Iterative Refinement:
  You might consider a two-step process where the model first outlines the analysis, and then, in a follow-up query, scores each article with justification. This can help in isolating and improving reasoning quality.

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2. Reducing Variability in Responses

• Temperature and Sampling:
  Lower the sampling temperature and adjust top-p settings to reduce randomness. For example, if you’re currently using a higher temperature, lowering it (e.g., to 0.2 or 0.1) may lead to more consistent outputs:

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  {
    "temperature": 0.2,
    "top_p": 0.95
  }

• Use of Deterministic Decoding Techniques:
  Techniques such as beam search or n-best lists (if supported) may help stabilize responses across repeated invocations of the same prompt.

• Prompt Engineering for Consistency:
  Including explicit instructions like “Answer in the same format each time” can sometimes nudge the model towards more consistent behavior.

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3. Feedback Loop and Iteration

• Monitor the Outcomes:
  Keep track of the changes in performance as you experiment with these adjustments. Logging examples and evaluating chain-of-thought outputs can be a useful gauge of improvement.

• Provide Feedback:
  Since this is a preview version, your detailed feedback (e.g., about logical reasoning or scoring inconsistency) is invaluable. Consider sharing your examples and use cases with the development team so that they can fine-tune the model further before the stable release.

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These strategies don't guarantee that all issues will be completely resolved, but they can help mitigate variability and improve logical consistency in your current implementation. Given that this is a preview, improvements are expected in the upcoming stable release.

If you have further technical details or specific code setups you’re using, feel free to share them for a more tailored recommendation.