Preprint
Aug 2026
Soft Guidance Starts to Outperform CoT Prompting as LLMs Improve
It is suggested that using standard CoT prompting increasingly acts as a source of distraction as models grow stronger, because standard CoT prompting also demands style adaptation, formatting compliance, and potentially undesired contextualization, which can distract models from the core reasoning task.
Denys Pushkin, Albert Q. Jiang, Aryo Lotfi et al.
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