Prompt EngineeringJacob Pfau et al. (NYU)New York University (NYU)

Let's Think Dot by Dot published

Let's Think Dot by Dot published — performance on some tasks rises even with meaningless filler tokens alone

Why it matters

A rebuttal showing that CoT performance gains are not necessarily due to the content of the reasoning

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15758

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