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

Add worked examples to the prompt — and reasoning emerges in big models, no training

Wei et al. · NeurIPS 2022 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗

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Add worked examples to the prompt — and reasoning emerges in big models, no training

Who published Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models, and where?

Wei et al. — NeurIPS 2022 (arXiv:2201.11903).

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