Glossary Context Management 1 min read

Chain-of-Thought

Also known as: CoT, Chain-of-Thought Prompting, Step-by-Step Reasoning

A prompting technique that improves AI reasoning by instructing the model to decompose complex problems into intermediate reasoning steps before arriving at a final answer.

CoT prompting, step-by-step reasoning, reasoning chain, intermediate steps, logical reasoning, multi-step inference, reasoning traces, scratchpad, think step by step, problem decomposition, structured reasoning

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