Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

Wei et al., 2022, Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022))

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2 Chain-of-Thought Prompting

  1. What attractive properties of chain of thought did Wei et al. list?
    It lets models decompose multi-step problems and spend more computation on harder ones; it gives an interpretable (if incomplete) window into how an answer was reached; it applies in principle to any task humans solve via language; and it can be elicited from off-the-shelf models just by adding examples to the prompt.

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