Optimizing Large Language Models for Concise and Accurate Responses through Constrained Chain-of-Thought Prompting
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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to impressive abilities in handling complex question-answering tasks. However, challenges arise in maintaining interactive conversations due to longer response generation times and overly lengthy reasoning chains.
Researchers have proposed a refined prompt engineering strategy, Constrained-Chain-of-Thought (CCoT), to limit output length and improve accuracy and response time. Experiments have shown that constraining reasoning to 100 words improved accuracy and reduced output length, emphasizing the need for brevity in LLM reasoning.
Tests on various models have demonstrated that as output length increases, so does generation time. The study introduces metrics to evaluate both conciseness and correctness and proposes CCoT as an approach to control output length while maintaining accuracy, effectively reducing generation time.
Experiments have evaluated the effectiveness of the CCoT approach compared to classic CoT, showing that CCoT reduces generation time and can improve or maintain accuracy. Larger models like Llama2-70b benefit more from CCoT, while smaller models struggle. CCoT demonstrates improved efficiency and concise accuracy, especially for larger LLMs.
The study emphasizes the importance of conciseness in text generation by LLMs and introduces CCoT as a prompt engineering technique to control output length. Future research will explore integrating these metrics into model fine-tuning and examining how conciseness impacts phenomena like hallucinations or incorrect reasoning in LLMs.
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