Contrastive Chain-of-Thought

Contrastive Chain-of-Thought or Contrastive CoT involves adding incorrect explanations to the CoT prompt alongside the correct reasoning in order to show the LLM how not to reason. This method has shown significant improvement over CoT in areas like arithmetic reasoning and factual question answering.

Footnotes

1. Yew Ken Chia. (2023). Contrastive Chain-of-Thought Prompting. In arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11692. ↩