Prompt EngineeringZayne Sprague et al. (University of Texas at Austin and others)
Zayne Sprague et al. publish "To CoT or not to CoT?"
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"To CoT or not to CoT?" published — a meta-analysis of over 100 papers plus experiments reported that CoT gains are concentrated in math and symbolic reasoning
Why it matters
A rebuttal that empirically narrowed the scope in which CoT applies
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12183Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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