chain of thought

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Instead of simply providing an answer to a question or problem, large reasoning models create a chain of thought, that is a sequence of steps that explain how the solution is obtained. This chain of thought can be more easily validated and also allows more complex problems to be tackled as each step is simpler.

Also known as CoT