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Overview

Encourage the model to think through high-level context required to answer a query. Step-back prompting proceeds in two steps:
  • Abstraction: Generate a more generic step-back question.
  • Reasoning: Answer the original question using the abstracted response.

Example

References

  1. Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction in Large Language Models (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06117)
  2. The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques (https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06608)