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Prompting
Plan-and-Solve
A prompting method that tells the model to first make a plan, then carry it out step by step.
Definition
Plan-and-solve prompting instructs a model to first devise a plan that breaks a task into steps, then follow the plan to solve it. It improves zero-shot reasoning by encouraging structure, and it is a lighter, prompt-only cousin of the plan-and-execute agent pattern.