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Longer Reasoning Chains Boost AI Performance, Study Finds

Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning boosts LLMs' complex problem-solving skills, outperforming short CoT methods. Context length is key to Long CoT's effectiveness.

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Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) reasoning helps LLMs tackle complex problems
Short CoT shows limitations for complex reasoning tasks
The paper categorizes Long CoT methods into construction, analysis, editing, and application
Long CoT produces better performance on complex reasoning compared to short CoT
Context length is crucial for Long CoT's effect...