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Kseniase 
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9 types of "Chain-of-..." approaches:

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enhances reasoning in AI models by breaking down complex problems into step-by-step logical sequences. It continues proving its effectiveness, especially in top-performing reasoning models. However, there are other similar methods, that expand CoT and can be used for different purposes. Here are 9 of them:

1. Chain-of-Action-Thought (COAT) -> Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search (2502.02508)
Helps model decide when to keep thinking, double-check their work, or try a different approach, using special guiding tokens.

2. Chain of Draft (CoD) -> Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less (2502.18600)
It helps model generate short but meaningful reasoning steps, cutting costs and making processing faster

3. Chain-of-Agents -> Chain of Agents: Large Language Models Collaborating on Long-Context Tasks (2406.02818)
Uses multi-agent collaboration: Worker agents process text parts in a structured chain, and manager agent summarizes the results

4. Chain-of-RAG ->https://huggingface.co/papers/2501.14342
Creates retrieval chains, instead of retrieving all info at once. It can dynamically adjust its search process and its parameters like step number

5. Chain-of-Shot Prompting (CoS) -> CoS: Chain-of-Shot Prompting for Long Video Understanding (2502.06428)
Helps models pick frames crucial for understanding a video, using a binary video summary and video co-reasoning module.

6. Chain of Hindsight (CoH) -> Chain of Hindsight Aligns Language Models with Feedback (2302.02676)
Converts all feedback into sequences to fine-tune the model and refine outputs

7. Chain-of-Note (CoN) -> Chain-of-Note: Enhancing Robustness in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (2311.09210)
Generates sequential reading notes for each retrieved document to assess relevance before integrating info into the final answer

8. Chain of Diagnosis (CoD) -> CoD, Towards an Interpretable Medical Agent using Chain of Diagnosis (2407.13301)
Transforms the diagnostic process into a diagnostic chain

9. Chain(s)-of-Knowledge -> https://www.turingpost.com/p/cok
Enhance LLMs by dynamically pulling in external knowledge to improve accuracy and reduce errors
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