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Re:Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thin... by mplewis on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:19PM (#42010453)
The empirical results like OP’s paper, in which chain of thought reduces quality?
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Re:Chain-of-Thought Can Hurt Performance on Tasks Where Thin... by danenania on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:50PM (#42010774)
The paper is interesting because CoT has been so widely demonstrated as effective. The point is that it "can" hurt performance on a subset of tasks, not that CoT doesn't work at all.

It's literally in the second line of the abstract: "While CoT has been shown to improve performance across many tasks..."

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