Maieutic Prompting: Logically Consistent Reasoning with Recursive Explanations. (arXiv:2205.11822v1 [cs.CL])

Despite their impressive capabilities, large pre-trained language models
(LMs) struggle with consistent reasoning; recently, prompting LMs to generate
explanations that self-guide the inference has emerged as a promising direction
to amend this. However, these approaches are fundamentally bounded by the
correctness of explanations, which themselves are often noisy and inconsistent.
In this work, we develop Maieutic Prompting, which infers a correct answer to a
question even from the noisy and inconsistent generations of LM. Maieutic
Prompting induces a tree of …

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