Matthew Renze

Matthew Renze has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on Reasoning, Language models & pretraining.

2 papers in our library · 2024

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The Effect of Sampling Temperature on Problem Solving in Large Language Models (2024 · 262 citations)
Practitioners often pick an LLM's sampling temperature by intuition: low for precise work, high for "creative" work, with little evidence behind either.
Self-Reflection in LLM Agents: Effects on Problem-Solving Performance (2024 · 75 citations)
LLM agents that reason via chain of thought (CoT) still make logical, arithmetic and factual errors. Renze and Guven test whether an agent that analyses its own failed reasoning does better on a second attempt. They built a 1,000-item multiple-choice exam by sampling 100 questions from each of ten problem sets (from…

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Papers of our library cite their works 123 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 7 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 24 October 2026