ChatCoT: Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning on Chat-based Large Language Models
Zhipeng Chen, Kun Zhou, Beichen Zhang, Zheng Gong, Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen
Abstract
Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved excellent performance in a variety of evaluation benchmarks, they still struggle in complex reasoning tasks which require specific knowledge and multi-hop reasoning. To improve the reasoning abilities, we propose ChatCoT, a tool-augmented chain-of-thought reasoning framework for chat-based LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT). In ChatCoT, we model the chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning as multi-turn conversations, to utilize tools in a more natural way through chatting. At each turn, LLMs can either interact with tools or perform the reasoning. Our approach can effectively leverage the multi-turn conversation ability of chat-based LLMs, and integrate the thought chain following and tools manipulation in a unified way. Specially, we initialize the early turns of the conversation by the knowledge about tools, tasks, and reasoning format, and propose an iterative tool-augmented reasoning step to perform step-by-step tool-augmented reasoning. The experiment results on two complex reasoning datasets (MATH and HotpotQA) have shown the effectiveness of ChatCoT on complex reasoning tasks, achieving a 7.9% relative improvement over the state-of-the-art baseline.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.findings-emnlp.985
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 14777–14790
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.985
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.985
- Cite (ACL):
- Zhipeng Chen, Kun Zhou, Beichen Zhang, Zheng Gong, Xin Zhao, and Ji-Rong Wen. 2023. ChatCoT: Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning on Chat-based Large Language Models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 14777–14790, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- ChatCoT: Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning on Chat-based Large Language Models (Chen et al., Findings 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/2023.findings-emnlp.985.pdf