{
  "id": "graph-of-thoughts",
  "code": "PTL-0034",
  "term": "Graph of Thoughts",
  "aliases": [],
  "category": "reasoning",
  "definition": "Graph of Thoughts (GoT) models a language model's reasoning as an arbitrary graph, in which thoughts can be combined, refined, and looped back on, generalizing chain and tree structures.",
  "description": "Aggregation of several partial solutions into one, such as merging sorted sublists, is the key operation GoT adds over tree-shaped search.",
  "example": null,
  "broader": [
    "tree-of-thoughts"
  ],
  "narrower": [],
  "related": [
    "chain-of-thought"
  ],
  "introduced": 2023,
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models",
      "authors": "Besta et al.",
      "year": 2023,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09687"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://protologue.com/t/graph-of-thoughts/",
  "citation": "Protologue. (2026). Graph of Thoughts. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0034). https://protologue.com/t/graph-of-thoughts/"
}