Unlocking Structured Thinking in Language Models with Cognitive Prompting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02953v2
• Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:08:32 GMT
• Title: Unlocking Structured Thinking in Language Models with Cognitive Prompting
• Authors: Oliver Kramer, Jill Baumann,
• Abstract summary: We propose cognitive prompting as a novel approach to guide problem-solving in large language models. We evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive prompting on Meta's LLaMA models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose cognitive prompting as a novel approach to guide problem-solving in large language models (LLMs) through structured, human-like cognitive operations such as goal clarification, decomposition, filtering, abstraction, and pattern recognition. By employing systematic, step-by-step reasoning, cognitive prompting enables LLMs to efficiently tackle complex, multi-step tasks. We evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive prompting on Meta's LLaMA models, comparing performance on arithmetic reasoning tasks using the GSM8K dataset and on commonsense reasoning benchmarks. Our analysis includes comparisons between models without cognitive prompting, models with a static sequence of cognitive operations, and models using reflective cognitive prompting, where the LLM dynamically self-selects the sequence of cognitive operations. The results show that cognitive prompting, particularly when dynamically adapted, significantly improves the performance of larger models, such as LLaMA3.1 70B, and enhances their ability to handle multi-step reasoning tasks. This approach also improves interpretability and flexibility, highlighting cognitive prompting as a promising strategy for general-purpose AI reasoning.

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