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Program of Thoughts

Also called PoT.

Program of Thoughts (PoT) prompting expresses numerical reasoning as executable code, separating computation, done by an interpreter, from reasoning, done by the model.

Description

Developed concurrently with PAL, it showed strong gains on financial and math question answering.

Sources

  1. Chen et al. (2022). Program of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks.

Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Program of Thoughts. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0046). https://protologue.com/t/program-of-thoughts/

BibTeX
@misc{protologue_program_of_thoughts,
  title = {Program of Thoughts},
  author = {{Protologue}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
  note = {Entry PTL-0046},
  url = {https://protologue.com/t/program-of-thoughts/}
}

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