Claim record · edition 1.0.0
si-006Established result
Prompting a model to produce intermediate reasoning steps changes its measured performance on multi-step problems.
Chain-of-thought prompting demonstrated that the inference procedure, not only the weights, determines measured performance.
Limits of this claim
A produced reasoning trace is not evidence of the process that generated the answer. The source measures outputs, not internal reasoning.
Supporting source records · 1
primary paperContent verified
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Wei et al. · 2022
Established that intermediate reasoning steps at inference change measured performance.
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