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

Google·January 28, 2022

Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans

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TL;DR

Shows that prompting models to produce step-by-step reasoning dramatically improves performance on arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks.

Why it matters

Established reasoning-by-prompting as a core capability and seeded the line of work that became inference-time reasoning models.

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