Prompt EngineeringMiles Turpin et al. (NYU, Cohere, Anthropic)New York University (NYU)CohereAnthropic

Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think published

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Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think published — when biased few-shot examples are inserted, CoT produces a justification without mentioning the actual cause

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The starting point of the line of work challenging CoT faithfulness

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388

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