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New prompting framework enhances LLM reasoning with expert roles

Researchers have introduced Role-Enhanced Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought (RE-ZS-CoT), a new prompting framework designed to improve large language model reasoning without requiring task-specific examples. This method integrates domain-specific expert roles, either statically assigned or dynamically selected by the model, to enhance performance across various benchmarks. Evaluations across 20 LLMs and seven benchmarks demonstrated that RE-ZS-CoT frequently outperforms existing zero-shot and zero-shot-CoT baselines, with improvements reaching up to 44 percentage points. The framework's effectiveness was validated across different model sizes, including smaller models like Granite3.3-8b, showing its scalability and practical utility for boosting LLM capabilities. AI

IMPACT This new prompting technique could significantly improve LLM performance on complex reasoning tasks without requiring extensive fine-tuning.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new method for LLM prompting. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ibrahim Khan, Thai Van Nguyen, Yi Xia, Pratch Suntichaikul, Mustafa Can Gursesli, Daniel Fernandez Galeote, Juho Hamari, Ruck Thawonmas ·

    A Large-Scale Evaluation of Role-Enhanced Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting

    arXiv:2610.29073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes Role-Enhanced Zero-Shot Chain-of-Thought (RE-ZS-CoT), a prompting framework that systematically integrates domain-specific expert roles to enhance reasoning in large language models (LLMs) without task-specific e…