Program of Thoughts
Also called PoT.
Program of Thoughts (PoT) prompting expresses numerical reasoning as executable code, separating computation, done by an interpreter, from reasoning, done by the model.
Description
Developed concurrently with PAL, it showed strong gains on financial and math question answering.
Sources
Cite this entry
Protologue. (2026). Program of Thoughts. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0046). https://protologue.com/t/program-of-thoughts/
BibTeX
@misc{protologue_program_of_thoughts,
title = {Program of Thoughts},
author = {{Protologue}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
note = {Entry PTL-0046},
url = {https://protologue.com/t/program-of-thoughts/}
}