Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models

by Shunyu Yao et al.

Search over branching reasoning steps; basis for many planning approaches.

The paper treats problem solving as a search over alternative intermediate states. Implementing and evaluating that search requires more orchestration than making a single model call.

Level: Expert
Models: any
Category: Prompting
Tags: reasoning, research
Source date: 2023-05-17
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok

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