In-context learning is the property that made prompting a paradigm; chain-of-thought is its most useful trick. The signal is knowing what 'learning' means here (no weight updates) and why making the model reason step by step actually helps. Here is the answer.
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In-context learning is the property that made prompting a paradigm; chain-of-thought is its most useful trick. The signal is knowing what 'learning' means here (no weight updates) and why making the model reason step by step actually helps. Here is the answer.
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