Chain-of-Thought

Why can a 50-token reply from a reasoning model still bill you for thousands of tokens?

DeepSeek-style reasoning distillation: what travels from teacher to student, and what gets cut from the loss?

Flashcard: why use Tree of Thoughts search on hard agent planning problems?

Flashcard: what is the ReAct pattern for agents, in one sentence?

Flashcard: what is Tree of Thoughts (ToT) prompting and what problem does it solve?

Flashcard: what is self-consistency prompting and what does it produce as a final answer?

Flashcard: what is chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting, in one sentence?

Tree of Thoughts (Yao et al. 2023) explores multiple reasoning branches at each step. On what kind of problem does the tree structure pay off over a single-thread Chain of Thought?

Spot the issue with this production prompt template that adds Chain-of-Thought to every customer-support query, including simple fact-lookup ones.

Chain-of-Thought is widely cited as 'always improves accuracy'. For which of these tasks would adding CoT prompting most reliably help?

What did the Yao et al. 2022 ReAct paper establish about combining reasoning and acting?

How does ReAct differ from pure chain-of-thought, and what does interleaving reasoning with acting provide?

What is the primary advantage of ReAct's Thought→Action→Observation loop over pure chain-of-thought on a multi-step research task?