← All works
Research paper

Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

At a glance

Showed that examples with reasoning steps can help language models solve harder problems.

In one paragraph

Showed that giving large language models examples with intermediate reasoning steps can improve their answers to arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning problems. The approach became known as chain-of-thought prompting.

Authors 9

  1. Jason Wei
  2. Xuezhi Wang
  3. Dale Schuurmans
  4. Maarten Bosma
  5. Brian Ichter
  6. Fei Xia
  7. Ed H. Chi
  8. Quoc V. Le
  9. Denny Zhou