Program of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks. (arXiv:2211.12588v1 [cs.CL])

Recently, there has been significant progress in teaching language models to
perform step-by-step reasoning to solve complex numerical reasoning tasks.
Chain-of-thoughts prompting (CoT) is by far the state-of-art method for these
tasks. CoT uses language models to perform both reasoning and computation in
the multi-step `thought' process. To disentangle computation from reasoning, we
propose `Program of Thoughts' (PoT), which uses language models (mainly Codex)
to express the reasoning process as a program. The computation is relegated to
an external computer, …

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