chain of thought

Definition

When a model writes out its reasoning step by step before giving an answer.

A prompting and generation strategy where the model produces intermediate reasoning tokens before its final answer, often improving accuracy on multi-step tasks.

Also called: CoT, chain-of-thought, chain-of-thought reasoning, chains of thought

Mentioned in 20 episodes

1. 079
   An Old Idea From Cognitive Psychology Reshapes How We Reward Reasoning Models
2. 077
   Reading a Model's Confidence Curve to Decide When Chain-of-Thought Is Worth It
3. 076
   Same Model, Organized Differently: How an Agent Architecture Beat Frontier Systems at Research Math
4. 075
   Growing Code and Proof Together: Verified Systems in Ten Hours Instead of a Year
5. 067
   An AI Just Solved a 1996 Erdős Problem—and the Simplest Agent Won
6. 062
   Treating Hallucinations as Exploits: A Gate-Based Architecture for Agent Safety
7. 061
   When Helpful Agents Go Sideways: A 404 Error, Campus Security, and Why Alignment Misses This
8. 054
   When Models Learn the Monitor Exists, the Reasoning Trace Stops Being a Window
9. 042
   An Agentic Scientific Computing System That Actually Remembers What It Learns
10. 041
    When the Iteration Teaches the Model to Skip the Iteration
11. 036
    Sparse Attention Was the Wrong Frame. Treat It as Geometry Instead.
12. 033
    Echo: The Paper Arguing You Never Needed a KV Cache for Retrieval
13. 032
    A Sticky-Note for Every Layer: Letting Transformers Remember What They Were Just Thinking
14. 028
    Teaching a Model to Hire Copies of Itself: Recursive Agent Optimization
15. 022
    Training the Model Spec Directly: An Alignment Lever Aimed at the Say-Do Gap
16. 020
    The Compliance Gap: Why AI Says Yes and Does No
17. 018
    Language Models Compute the Rational Move, Then Override It
18. 017
    When the Agent Grades Its Own Homework: A Brutal New Benchmark for AI Workers
19. 010
    When Reward Climbs But Reasoning Goes Generic: Diagnosing Template Collapse in Agentic RL
20. 006
    What Happens Inside Claude When It Decides to Blackmail Someone

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