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Factored Cognition Primer | Primer 
Example of a decomposition for reasoning about papers.
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Factored Cognition Primer
How to write compositional language model programs
You’ll learn how to:
Amplify language models like GPT-3 through recursive question-answering and debate
Reason about long texts by combining search and generation
Run decompositions quickly by parallelizing language model calls
Build human-in-the-loop agents
Use verification of answers and reasoning steps to improve responses
And more!
The book focuses on techniques that are likely to remain relevant for better language models.
Last updated
A. Stuhlmüller and J. Reppert and L. Stebbing (2022). Factored Cognition Primer. Retrieved December 6, 2022 from https://primer.ought.org.@misc{primer2022,
author = {Stuhlmüller, Andreas and Reppert, Justin and Stebbing, Luke},
title = {Factored Cognition Primer},
year = {2022},
howpublished = {\url{https://primer.ought.org}},
urldate = {2022-12-06}
}