Plan-and-Solve Prompting

Plan-and-Solve enhances Zero-Shot CoT with prompts like "Let's first understand the problem and devise a plan to solve it. Then, let's carry out the plan and solve the problem step by step". This method generates more robust reasoning processes than standard Zero-Shot CoT and even rivals the performance of various Few-Shot CoT methods.

Footnotes

1. Lei Wang. (2023). Plan-and-Solve Prompting: Improving Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Reasoning by Large Language Models. ↩