tree-of-thought
/ˌtriː əv ˈθɔːt/
exploring branching reasoning paths and backtracking from dead ends
tree-of-thought in a sentence
“Tree-of-thought prompting let the model try three solution branches before committing.”
Origin of tree-of-thought
coined by Yao et al. (2023), extending chain-of-thought
Related Words
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a prompt crafted to trick a model into ignoring its safety rules
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prompt
the input text given to a language model to guide its response