Prompt EngineeringJaehun Jung et al. (University of Washington, AI2)University of WashingtonAi2 (Allen Institute for AI)

Jung et al. present Maieutic Prompting

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Presented Maieutic Prompting — builds a recursive tree of explanations and decides the answer by logical consistency

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An early case of treating generated reasoning as something to check and to resolve conflicts in

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11822

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