Is CoT useful for simple classification?
No, simple tasks don't benefit from CoT and only incur extra latency and cost.
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It allows the model to generate intermediate reasoning tokens, which serve as context for subsequent prediction steps.
Triggering reasoning without examples, simply by adding instructions like 'think step-by-step' to the prompt.
Yes, because the model has to generate more tokens (the reasoning steps) before it outputs the final answer.
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