Chain of Thought Prompting

Reasoning with LLMs

Improve LLM reasoning.

Concept

Include reasoning steps in prompt. LLM follows same pattern.

Benefits

Complex arithmetic. Logical deduction. Multi-step problems.

Variations

Zero-shot CoT: add "think step by step". Tree of thoughts: branch reasoning.

Key Takeaways

1. Show reasoning steps in examples
2. Improves complex tasks
3. Zero-shot works sometimes