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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What is in-context learning, and why does chain-of-thought prompting improve results?
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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