chain-of-thought in large language models - what has changed over the years?

Abstract Chain of Thought (CoT) has been one of the most important breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly because it significantly improves reasoning capabilities. CoT is a simple prompting technique in which the model is given a few examples that include both the questions and the step-by-step reasoning used to solve them. Though CoT prompting proved improvement in the…