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recommended confidence: moderate no check recorded
Still the cheapest way to pin an output schema
- Exemplars retain a format-alignment function even where their reasoning benefit has disappeared. arXiv:2506.14641
Revisiting Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Zero-shot Can Be Stronger than Few-shot · EMNLP 2025 Findings, 2025 not read in full