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Chain of Thought

Getting a model to write out its intermediate reasoning before answering, rather than jumping to a conclusion.

Also called: CoT, step by step

Getting a model to write out its intermediate reasoning before answering, rather than jumping to a conclusion.

Why it mattersCheapest accuracy upgrade there is on multi-step problems. Just ask it to work through the steps.

See also Reasoning Model, Prompt Engineering

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