Large Language Models
Chain-of-Thought
CoT
Large Language Models· Advanced
Definition
A prompting technique guiding the model to break down complex problems into explicit intermediate reasoning steps before a final answer. Significantly improves performance on math, logic, and multi-step reasoning. Foundation of thinking models like o1 and Claude's extended thinking.
Maxx Stacks Context
Trigger: 'Let's think step by step' reliably activates chain-of-thought in capable models.
Tags
#reasoning#prompting#step-by-step#thinking
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