Prompt EngineeringTakeshi Kojima et al. (University of Tokyo, Google Research)Google Research

Kojima et al. present Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners

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Presented Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners — elicited CoT without examples using a single sentence, “Let's think step by step”

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CoT without examples. The original of every later zero-shot reasoning prompt

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916

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