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Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models research paper by Google, 2022

Google · Reasoning · Jan 28, 2022 · 23,766 citations · 16 upvotes

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Asking a model to write out its intermediate steps (chain of thought) sharply improves its math and logic answers.

By Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans and 6 more · arXiv 2201.11903 · PDF

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16 · Hugging Face
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