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Self-reflection and chain-of-thought are different things; CoT is about writing out the intermediate steps to an answer it can't immediately reach. Self-reflec
by astrange 3y ago
Self-reflection and chain-of-thought are different things; CoT is about writing out the intermediate steps to an answer it can't immediately reach.
Self-reflection doesn't work well though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798 https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798
- xcv123 3y agoThe paper you linked to mentions "self correction", which seems to be something else. Chain of thought is a form of self reflection. It enables the LLM to "think" through each step and evaluate each step in relation to the entire context window. That is evaluation of each thought in relation to its previous thoughts. Thinking about its thoughts.