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Google presents Least-to-Most Prompting

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Presented Least-to-Most Prompting — breaks a problem into subproblems and solves them in sequence

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The prototype of the decomposition-and-planning lineage (Plan-and-Solve, Self-Discover)

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10625

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