More on Prompting Techniques
Prompt Engineering
18 Feb 2026
Week Six
Agenda
- Guest from Google: Jasleen Singh
- Presentations: Abhiram, Ethan
- News
- Review whatiknow (Dhruvi)
- eB review
- m1 review
- Agenta.ai
- Techniques
- Work time
Presentations
News
The Batch
\(\langle\) pause to look at this week’s edition \(\rangle\)
WhatIKnow (Dhruvi)
\(\langle\) look at the doc \(\rangle\)
eB review
m1 review
Agenta.ai
\(\langle\) Do the Quick Start under Evaluations \(\rangle\)
More on Techniques
Last time, we did few-shot and zero-shot prompting techniques. Now we’ll move on to thought generation techniques and others. Again, we’re referring to Schulhoff et al. (2024).
Thought Generation
- prompting the model to articulate its ongoing reasoning
- Chain-of-Thought
- Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought
- Step-Back Prompting
- Analogical Prompting
- Thread-of-Thought Prompting
- Tabular Chain-of-Thought
Few-Shot CoT
- multiple examples, including chains-of-thought
- Contrastive CoT Prompting
- Uncertainty-Routed CoT Prompting
- Complexity-based Prompting
- Active Prompting
- Memory-of-Thought Prompting
- Automatic Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Decomposition
- explicitly decomposing the problem into subproblems
- Least-to-Most Prompting
- Plan-and-Solve Prompting
- Tree-of-Thought Prompting
- Recursion-of-Thought Prompting
- Program-of-Thoughts
- Faithful Chain-of-Thought
- Skeleton-of-Thought
- Metacognitive Prompting
Ensembling
- using multiple prompts to solve the same problem, then aggregating the results, for example, by majority vote
- Demonstration Ensembling
- Mixture of Reasoning Experts
- Max Mutual Information Method
- Self-Consistency
- Universal Self-Consistency
- Meta-Reasoning over Multiple CoTs
- DiVeRSe
- Consistency-based Self-Adaptive Prompting
- Universal Self-Adaptive Prompting
- Prompt Paraphrasing
Self-Criticism
- prompting the model to critique its own output
- Self-Calibration
- Self-Refine
- Reversing Chain-of-Thought
- Self-Verification
- Chain-of-Verification
- Cumulative Reasoning
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References
Schulhoff, Sander, Michael Ilie, Nishant Balepur, Konstantine Kahadze, Amanda Liu, Chenglei Si, Yinheng Li, et al. 2024. “The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06608.
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