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

Authors: Wei et al. Year: 2022 ArXiv/Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

Summary

Demonstrates that prompting models to show step-by-step reasoning dramatically improves performance on complex tasks.

Key Concepts

  • Chain-of-thought
  • Step-by-step reasoning
  • Emergent reasoning
  • Prompt engineering
  • Reasoning elicitation

Impact

Simple technique enabling better reasoning in language models

Category

Chain-of-Thought & Reasoning