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Chain-of-Thought prompting introduced in paper: Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (Wei et al., 2022).
Last verified 2026-05-16 · Methodology veritas-v0.1 · 3af924da138ff84c
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- Chain-of-Thought prompting
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- Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (Wei et al., 2022)
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- chain-of-thought · cot · prompting · foundational · wei · 2022 · google · nips
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[1] preprint · arXiv (Wei, Wang, Schuurmans, Bosma, Ichter, Xia, Chi, Le, Zhou) · 2022-01-28
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models“We explore how generating a chain of thought — a series of intermediate reasoning steps — significantly improves the ability of large language models to perform complex reasoning.”
[2] peer reviewed · NeurIPS Foundation · 2022-12-06
Chain-of-Thought Prompting (NeurIPS 2022)
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