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Chain-of-Thought

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Definition

Prompting a model to write out its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer, which tends to improve accuracy on multi-step problems.

Posts that use this term

  • Prompting as an engineering discipline

    A prompt that runs a thousand times a day needs to be treated like code, not a note you typed once. Few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured output, with the trade-offs.