Tree of Thoughts
Domain: Prompt Engineering
🎯 Motivation
Extending CoT: the model explores multiple reasoning paths (branches of a tree), evaluates them, and chooses the best one.
📋 Concrete Example
For a chess puzzle: explore path A (move queen), path B (move knight), path C (move rook). Evaluate each: A leads to checkmate, B loses queen, C is neutral. Choose A.
🔗 Analogy
A decision tree for choosing a university - you explore multiple paths (Path A: study abroad, Path B: local university, Path C: vocational). You evaluate outcomes and choose the best path. ToT does this for reasoning.