Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques: Tree-of-Thoughts Prompting

Researchers have developed a new prompt engineering technique called Tree-of-Thoughts (ToT) that aims to improve the problem-solving capacities of large language models (LLMs). ToT is inspired by human cognitive research and encourages LLMs to explore multiple reasoning paths via trees, allowing them to tackle problems in a more human-like, trial-and-error approach. The technique has been tested on three different tasks: the "Game of 24", creative writing, and crossword puzzles, with promising results compared to standard Input-Output (IO) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting methods. While ToT requires more LLM queries than IO or CoT, it offers an interpretable approach to problem solving and can be combined with other classical data structures and algorithms in the future.