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Recursive Summarization

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5Openai Blog·28d ago·source ↗

Summarizing Books with Human Feedback

OpenAI published research on using human feedback to train models to summarize entire books, addressing the challenge of scaling human oversight to tasks that are difficult for humans to evaluate directly. The work explores recursive task decomposition, where models summarize smaller chunks and then summarize those summaries, with humans providing feedback at each level. This represents an early concrete application of scalable oversight techniques to long-document understanding.