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

by Jason Wei et al.

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Early research on using worked reasoning examples to improve performance on reasoning tasks.

The paper studies how worked reasoning examples affect language-model performance on reasoning tasks. It offers historical context for later approaches without guaranteeing reliable reasoning in every model.

Level
Advanced
Models
any
Category
Prompting
Tags
reasoning, research
Source date
2022-01-28
Added
2026-10-18
Last verified
2026-10-18
Status
ok
Prerequisites
Requires implementation experience or critical reading of technical methods and system trade-offs.
Subcategory
reasoning and structured output
Region
West
Original language
en
Access
free
Resource reuse
open: Source states by/4.0. Applies to the linked resource, not every referenced model or dataset. Facet definitions

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