Prompt EngineeringWenhu Chen et al. (University of Waterloo, Google Research)Google Research

Chen et al. present Program of Thoughts

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Presented Program of Thoughts — separates reasoning from computation, expressing numerical reasoning as programs

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Together with PAL, formed the code-as-reasoning lineage

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12588

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