Spring 2025 Submitted May 2025
Conditioning ChessGPT via Prompt Tuning
Cole Blondin
Mentored by Jacek Karwowski
Working report from the SPAR program. May not reflect the authors' current views.
Abstract
We train soft prompts to condition the behavior of ChessGPT, a large language model trained on a large dataset of human chess games, with the goal of empirically testing the autoregressive conditioning hypothesis. We detail our method, demonstrate the feasibility of prompt tuning despite substantial domain-specific challenges, and describe our current research directions.