{
  "id": "program-of-thoughts",
  "code": "PTL-0046",
  "term": "Program of Thoughts",
  "aliases": [
    "PoT"
  ],
  "category": "reasoning",
  "definition": "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.",
  "example": null,
  "broader": [],
  "narrower": [],
  "related": [
    "program-aided-language-models",
    "chain-of-thought"
  ],
  "introduced": 2022,
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Program of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks",
      "authors": "Chen et al.",
      "year": 2022,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12588"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://protologue.com/t/program-of-thoughts/",
  "citation": "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/"
}