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Inference Intermediate Also known as: ToT

Tree of Thoughts

A reasoning strategy where the model explores multiple thought branches in parallel, evaluates them, and keeps only the promising ones, like a tree search.

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In practice

It extends Chain-of-Thought by allowing backtracking: useful for puzzles, planning, and math problems where a single linear path often fails. It costs many more tokens than standard inference.

Related terms

Chain-of-thought Self-consistency Reasoning model

Seen in the wild

1 entries mentioning it
  1. Tree of Thoughts: the LLM that reasons by exploring alternative branches
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