Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Ed H. Chi, Quoc V. Le, & Denny Zhou (2022)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35, 24824-24837.
Abstract. Wei et al.'s foundational paper on chain-of-thought prompting — the discovery that asking an LLM to "think step by step" substantially improves reasoning performance. The single most-cited prompt-engineering technique reference.
Tags: ai-usability prompting llm foundational