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Exploring Chain of Thought Techniques

A simple note about Chain of Thought (COT)


What is Prompting?

A method to guide language models (LMs) to generate desired outputs by framing the input in a specific way.

  • Zero-Shot Promoting: Directly asked to perform a task without being shown any examples.
  • One-Shot Promoting: Given one example of the task to guide its response.
  • Few-Shot Promoting: Provided with multiple examples to better learn the task pattern.

What is Chain of Thought (CoT) ?

Encourages models to generate intermediate reasoning steps rather than directly outputting the answer.

Enhances performance in tasks requiring multi-step reasoning, like arithmetic or logical problems.

Core idea: Not just output the answer, but the reasoning process.

arxiv 2201.11903

Zero-Shot-COT

加个think step by step之类的引导思维链,反正比Zero-Shot好

Auto-CoT

预设几个问题类型的思维类,然后把实际问题聚类过去,使用这个思维链

APE

通过自评分自动的探索LLM的最佳COT引导

COT-SC

生成多个答案,选比较一致的结果(多)

思维树

COT-SC是链,这里扩展成树,多个候选项