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CoT, ToT & Self-Consistency Prompting

Master Chain-of-Thought prompting, Self-Consistency, and Tree-of-Thought strategies. Learn when to trade inference compute for reasoning accuracy.

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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting

Zero-shot CoT vs few-shot CoT

Self-Consistency: sample and vote

Tree-of-Thought: branching exploration

Inference-time compute scaling

Reasoning extraction

Majority voting

Breadth-First Search (BFS)

System 2 thinking

ReAct (Reasoning and Acting)

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