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by Michele Laurelli

Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Technique
Definition

Prompting technique encouraging LLMs to show intermediate reasoning steps before answering.

Adding 'Let's think step by step' or reasoning examples improves complex task performance. Enables solving problems impossible with direct prompting.

Examples

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Math word problems

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Logical reasoning

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Multi-step planning

Michele Laurelli - AI Research & Engineering