Heuristic Classification of Thoughts Prompting (HCoT): Integrating Expert System Heuristics for Structured Reasoning into Large Language Models
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arXiv:2604.12390v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses two limitations of large language models (LLMs) in solving complex problems: (1) their reasoning processes exhibit Bayesian-like stochastic generation, where each token is sampled from a context-dependent probability distribution, leading to inherently random decision trajectories rather than deterministic planning; (2) the reasoning and decision-making mechanisms are statically decoupled, meaning dynamically retrieved domain
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arXiv:2604.12390v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper addresses two limitations of large language models (LLMs) in solving complex problems: (1) their reasoning processes exhibit Bayesian-like stochastic generation, where each token is sampled from a context-dependent probability distribution, leading to inherently random decision trajectories rather than deterministic planning; (2) the reasoning and decision-making mechanisms are statically decoupled, meaning dynamically retrieved domain
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