To CoT or not to CoT?
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The curator’s take
investigates what kinds of tasks benefit the most from chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting; after a meta-analysis on 100+ papers and several evaluations, it finds that CoT produces strong performance benefits primarily on tasks involving math and logic; they find that most of the CoT gain comes from improving symbolic execution, but a symbolic solver outperforms it.
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