Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Prompting technique that elicits step-by-step reasoning from large language models before the final answer.

Specifications & Metrics

type

Prompting & Reasoning

originator

Jason Wei et al.

introduced

2022

Core Principles & Analysis

• A prompting technique in which the model is led to produce intermediate reasoning steps rather than only a final answer.
• It was introduced by Jason Wei and colleagues in 2022.
• It is one of the standard tools of effective prompt engineering.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Chain-of-thought prompting