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The paper library

Read the papers. Skip the jargon.

The white papers that actually moved the field, each linked to the original and paired with my plain-language summary, a glossary of the terms, and what it changes in practice.

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Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

Wei, Wang, et al. — Google Research

The paper behind “think step by step”. Where CoT genuinely helps, where it just burns tokens, and what it means for eval design.

Original paper ↗

Summary

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