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The Mechanism of Reasoning Prompts
A user finds that a Large Language Model consistently fails to solve a multi-step mathematical word problem when asked for the final answer directly. However, when the user adds the phrase 'Show your work step-by-step,' the model correctly solves the problem. Explain the underlying mechanism that accounts for this significant improvement in the model's performance.
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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models
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