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Developed byGoogle Research
Founded2022
Licenseresearch concept
Open source✓ Open Source
Use caseimproving reasoning capabilities in large language models
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Chain-of-Thought

concept

Prompting technique that encourages AI models to show step-by-step reasoning processes.

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first published year

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2022○UnverifiedHighFresh1

published year

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2022○UnverifiedHighFresh1

requires

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large language models○UnverifiedHighFresh1
large language model○UnverifiedHighFresh1
large-scale language model○UnverifiedHighFresh1

first author

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Jason Wei○UnverifiedHighFresh1

key principle

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explicit step-by-step reasoning○UnverifiedHighFresh1

primary use case

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improving reasoning capabilities in large language models○UnverifiedHighFresh1
step-by-step problem solving for complex reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1
enabling step-by-step problem solving in AI systems○UnverifiedHighFresh1
multi-step problem solving in AI systems○UnverifiedHighFresh1
step-by-step problem solving in AI systems○UnverifiedHighFresh1
mathematical reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1
mathematical reasoning and word problems○UnverifiedHighFresh1
commonsense reasoning problems○UnverifiedHighFresh1
commonsense reasoning tasks○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

based on

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step-by-step reasoning methodology○UnverifiedHighFresh1
step-by-step reasoning decomposition○UnverifiedHighFresh1
prompting techniques○UnverifiedHighFresh1
prompting techniques for language models○UnverifiedHighFresh1
step-by-step reasoning prompting○UnverifiedHighFresh1

technique type

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prompting strategy○UnverifiedHighFresh1

improves performance on

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mathematical reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1
arithmetic reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1
logical reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1
commonsense reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1
symbolic reasoning tasks○UnverifiedHighFresh1

introduced year

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2022○UnverifiedHighFresh1

developed by

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Google Research○UnverifiedHighFresh1

founded year

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2022○UnverifiedHighFresh1

integrates with

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transformer-based language models○UnverifiedHighFresh1
GPT models○UnverifiedHighFresh1
PaLM○UnverifiedHighFresh1
LaMDA○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

supports model

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GPT-3○UnverifiedHighFresh1
PaLM○UnverifiedHighFresh1

alternative to

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direct answer prompting○UnverifiedHighFresh1
zero-shot prompting○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
few-shot prompting○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

pricing model

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free technique○UnverifiedHighFresh1
free research technique○UnverifiedHighFresh1

open source

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true○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

license type

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open research concept○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
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related technique

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self-consistency decoding○UnverifiedModerateFresh1
Tree-of-Thoughts○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

licensing type

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research methodology○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

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transformer-based language modelsGPT modelsPaLMLaMDA

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