[LLMs] Why think step by step? 

Paper Reading: Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience
arxiv.org/pdf/...
In this video, I will present a paper which provides a theoretical explanation of the chain-of-thought method.
The paper give a theoretical explanation that reasoning through intermediate steps can yield more accurate answers than providing a direct answer without any reasoning steps.
slides:
drive.google.c...
0:01:33 Problem Formulation
0:04:07 Direct Prediction--inference without any reasoning step.
0:05:04 Scaffolded generation--inference with the idea reasoning steps.
0:06:42 Free Generation--inference with reasoning steps generated by the model.
0:07:57 Theoretical Result
0:09:19 Experiment Result.
0:12:12 Take away