AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: Cognitive Prompting in LLM to Achieve Human-Like Thought Processes

 

AI News Brief 🧞‍♀️: Cognitive Prompting in LLM to Achieve Human-Like Thought Processes

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Can we teach machines to think like humans? 🤔 The answer is a resounding "yes!" with cognitive prompting. This revolutionary approach organizes human-like cognitive operations into a structured process, helping LLMs solve complex problems like a pro. 🔥

Imagine a world where AI models can reason through problems like humans, tackling math problems, decision-making, logical reasoning, and even creativity. 🤯 It's not just a pipe dream; cognitive prompting is making it a reality.

The concept is simple: provide LLMs with a sequence of cognitive operations (COPs) to follow, mimicking the way humans solve problems. These COPs include:

Goal Clarification: The model first needs to restate the problem in a clear way, defining what exactly it's trying to solve and what the desired outcome is.

Decomposition: Next, break the problem into manageable chunks, focusing on solving smaller parts one at a time.

Filtering: Ask the model to filter out unnecessary details, allowing it to focus on what really matters.

Pattern Recognition: Identify patterns to solve the problem efficiently, such as recognizing repeated steps.

Integration: In the end, synthesize all insights from the previous steps, integrating them into a solution for the final answer.

Researchers have tested cognitive prompting on math problems from the GSM8K dataset, and the results are impressive. 📊 The smaller model improved slightly with deterministic cognitive prompting, while the larger model scored 91% with self-adaptive prompting. 🚀

But how does it actually work? 🤔

The process unfolds as follows:

Define a sequence of COPs and ask the LLM to follow the sequence.

The model is given a prompt that includes the COPs, such as "Define each variable clearly" or "Solve the equations step by step".

The model is asked to give the final answer as a JSON string, which can be easily parsed and evaluated.

Some LLMs may not deliver a solution but instead provide Python code to solve the problem. In our experimental analysis, we treated the answer as correct when the Python code returns the correct result.

The results are promising, but this is just the beginning. Cognitive prompting could be adapted for other domains, such as:

Decision-making: Providing COPs for decision-making tasks, such as evaluating options and weighing pros and cons.

Logical Reasoning: Using COPs to guide logical reasoning tasks, such as solving puzzles and brain teasers.

Creativity: Applying COPs to creative tasks, such as generating art or writing poetry.

The implications are vast. Cognitive prompting can be combined with other AI ideas, such as:

Chain-of-thought prompting: Providing a sequence of COPs to guide the model's reasoning, similar to how humans think through problems.

Tree-of-thought prompting: Using a hierarchical structure of COPs to guide the model's reasoning, similar to how humans break down complex problems into smaller parts.

Evolutionary algorithms: Using evolutionary algorithms to optimize the prompting process, such as PromptBreeder.

The next big challenge is optimizing cognitive prompting across different problem types. 🤔 Who knows? Maybe one day, we'll have AI that can tackle anything from math problems to moral dilemmas, all while thinking as logically and creatively as we do. 🤯

Stay tuned for more updates on cognitive prompting and its potential to revolutionize AI. 📺 In the meantime, get ready to "think outside the box" with your favorite AI models. 🎉

Sources:

[1] O. Kramer, J. Baumann. Unlocking Structured Thinking in Language Models with Cognitive Prompting (submission to ICLR 2025)

[2] J. Wei, X. Wang, D. Schuurmans, M. Bosma, B. Ichter, F. Xia, E. H. Chi, Q. V. Le, and D. Zhou. Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models. In S. Koyejo, S. Mohamed, A. Agarwal, D. Bel-grave, K. Cho, and A. Oh, editors, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, volume 35, pages 24824–24837, 2022

[3] S. Yao, D. Yu, J. Zhao, I. Shafran, T. Griffiths, Y. Cao, and K. Narasimhan. Tree of thoughts: Deliberate problem solving with large language models. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), volume 36, pages 11809–11822, 2023

[4] I. Mirzadeh, K. Alizadeh, H. Shahrokhi, O. Tuzel, S. Bengio, and M. Farajtabar. GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models. 2024.

[5] K. Cobbe, V. Kosaraju, M. Bavarian, M. Chen, H. Jun, L. Kaiser, M. Plap-pert, J. Tworek, J. Hilton, R. Nakano, C. Hesse, and J. Schulman. Training verifiers to solve math word problems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14168, 20

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