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by MattRogish 19 days ago
The other thing I suspect is that "Just give me True/False" cuts off a large amount of the search space a modern-day LLM uses to help it answer questions (you can see it in reasoning traces but the act of writing the explanation helps guide it toward a better answer and gives it better likelihood it backtracks on a bad decision).

If you let it spew out an explanation along with the answer, I'm curious if the accuracy will improve (I suspect it will).

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Good point. Will publish in the next version also the results with a prompt that allows the models to "think out loud" before providing the final verdict.