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Buffer of Thoughts(BoT)
Maintains a dynamic buffer of reusable thought patterns for analogical reasoning
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- What
- Stores reusable reasoning patterns from past problems, then retrieves and adapts analogous patterns when solving new problems.
- When to use
- Complex reasoning tasks where similar problem structures recur across domains and analogical transfer can accelerate solution discovery.
- Watch out
- Buffer quality degrades if patterns are too generic or domain-specific; irrelevant analogies waste compute and mislead reasoning.
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Buffer of Thoughts: Overview
Maintains a dynamic buffer of reusable thought patterns for analogical reasoning
- Meta-buffer of problem-solving strategies
- Analogical pattern matching
- Reusable thought templates
- Cross-problem knowledge transfer
- Continuous buffer updating
- Large task-dependent gains (e.g. ~11% Game of 24, ~51% Checkmate-in-One)
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References
The papers, specifications, and repositories this pattern is based on.
- Buffer of Thoughts: Thought-Augmented Reasoning with Large Language Models (Yang et al., 2024)arXiv:2406.04271
- Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel GenerationarXiv:2307.15337
- Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (Wei et al., 2022)arXiv:2201.11903
- Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models (Yao et al., 2023)arXiv:2305.10601
- LangChain Memory Systems for Thought Storage
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