// ∞ Reasoning & Test-Time Compute
Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Prompting the model to write intermediate reasoning before answering.
思维链提示 2022 Beginner core
IN PLAIN WORDS
Show step-by-step worked examples and the model imitates them, greatly improving math and logic. It is the root of RL-trained reasoning models.
Used in: Prompting for any reasoning task
TIMELINE · prerequisites → this → what builds on it
01Original paper
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, et al. · 2022
arXiv ↗ ✓ Verified · arXiv API
02Where it sits
Learn the left column first; the right column builds on this one.
Learn first
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03Learning resources
Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.
04Where the course teaches it
On learning paths:Post-training & Reasoning Models
For AI / data
- Verification: verified, checked 2026-10-21.
- JSON: /api/learn/algorithms.json (id:
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