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Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

A prompting technique where the model 'shows its work' by reasoning step-by-step before answering. Dramatically improves performance on math, logic, and complex reasoning tasks.

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Step-by-step reasoningScratchpadTree-of-thoughtSelf-consistency

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