Why We Think

Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute ( Graves et al. 2016 , Ling, et al. 2017 , Cobbe et al. 2021 ) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) ( Wei et al. 2022 , Nye et al. 2021 ), have led to significant improvements in model performance, while raising many research questions. This post aims to review recent developments in how to…