Prompt EngineeringSilei Xu et al. (Zoom)

Zoom researchers present Chain of Draft

Presented Chain of Draft — a compressed CoT that uses only the minimum tokens per step

Why it matters

A branch that re-examined CoT along the axis of accuracy versus token cost

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18600

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