Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
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
- Advanced
- Models
- any
- Category
- Prompting
- Tags
- reasoning, research
- Source date
- 2023-05-17
- 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
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