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Prompting

Least-to-Most Prompting

Solving a hard problem by breaking it into easier sub-problems and building up from the simplest.

Definition

Least-to-most prompting tackles a hard problem by first breaking it into a series of easier sub-problems, then solving them in order from simplest to hardest, using earlier answers to help with later ones. It helps models handle tasks that are too complex to solve in a single step.