Conference Papers Year : 2024

Tree of Problems: Improving structured problem solving with compositionality

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across multiple tasks through in-context learning. For complex reasoning tasks that require step-by-step thinking, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has given impressive results, especially when combined with self-consistency. Nonetheless, some tasks remain particularly difficult for LLMs to solve. Tree of Thoughts (ToT) and Graph of Thoughts (GoT) emerged as alternatives, dividing the complex problem into paths of subproblems. In this paper, we propose Tree of Problems (ToP), a simpler version of ToT, which we hypothesise can work better for complex tasks that can be divided into identical subtasks. Our empirical results show that our approach outperforms ToT and GoT, and in addition performs better than CoT on complex reasoning tasks. All code for this paper is publicly available here: https://github.com/ArmelRandy/tree-of-problems.

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hal-04793388 , version 1 (20-11-2024)

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Armel Zebaze, Benoît Sagot, Rachel Bawden. Tree of Problems: Improving structured problem solving with compositionality. EMNLP 2024 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2024, Miami, FL, United States. pp.18028-18047. ⟨hal-04793388⟩
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