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# glossary.md renamed as concepts.md and moved under the Getting Started small PR. `Concepts` looks right to the point. It is moved under Getting Started (typical place). Previously it was lost in the Additional Resources section. ## Who can review? @hwchase17
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Concepts
These are concepts and terminology commonly used when developing LLM applications. It contains reference to external papers or sources where the concept was first introduced, as well as to places in LangChain where the concept is used.
Chain of Thought
Chain of Thought (CoT) is a prompting technique used to encourage the model to generate a series of intermediate reasoning steps.
A less formal way to induce this behavior is to include “Let’s think step-by-step” in the prompt.
Action Plan Generation
Action Plan Generation is a prompting technique that uses a language model to generate actions to take.
The results of these actions can then be fed back into the language model to generate a subsequent action.
ReAct
ReAct is a prompting technique that combines Chain-of-Thought prompting with action plan generation.
This induces the to model to think about what action to take, then take it.
Self-ask
Self-ask is a prompting method that builds on top of chain-of-thought prompting.
In this method, the model explicitly asks itself follow-up questions, which are then answered by an external search engine.
Prompt Chaining
Prompt Chaining is combining multiple LLM calls, with the output of one-step being the input to the next.
Memetic Proxy
Memetic Proxy is encouraging the LLM
to respond in a certain way framing the discussion in a context that the model knows of and that
will result in that type of response.
For example, as a conversation between a student and a teacher.
Self Consistency
Self Consistency is a decoding strategy that samples a diverse set of reasoning paths and then selects the most consistent answer.
Is most effective when combined with Chain-of-thought prompting.
Inception
Inception is also called First Person Instruction.
It is encouraging the model to think a certain way by including the start of the model’s response in the prompt.
MemPrompt
MemPrompt maintains a memory of errors and user feedback, and uses them to prevent repetition of mistakes.