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

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

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The starting point of the entire lineage of changing reasoning performance through prompts alone. With 8 CoT exemplars, the 540B model reached SOTA on GSM8K

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