What is Chain-of-Thought?
Prompting
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — A prompting technique that asks the model to show its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer. Significantly improves accuracy on math, logic, and complex reasoning tasks.
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What is chain-of-thought prompting?
Asking the model to reason step-by-step before answering. Adding the phrase think step by step can improve accuracy by 20-40% on reasoning tasks.
When to use CoT?
Math problems, logic puzzles, multi-step reasoning, code debugging — any task requiring sequential thinking.
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