@inproceedings{inaba-etal-2023-multitool,
    title = "{M}ulti{T}ool-{C}o{T}: {GPT}-3 Can Use Multiple External Tools with Chain of Thought Prompting",
    author = "Inaba, Tatsuro  and
      Kiyomaru, Hirokazu  and
      Cheng, Fei  and
      Kurohashi, Sadao",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.130",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.130",
    pages = "1522--1532",
    abstract = "Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on various reasoning tasks. To further improve the performance, we propose MultiTool-CoT, a novel framework that leverages chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to incorporate multiple external tools, such as a calculator and a knowledge retriever, during the reasoning process. We apply MultiTool-CoT to the Task 2 dataset of NumGLUE, which requires both numerical reasoning and domain-specific knowledge. The experiments show that our method significantly outperforms strong baselines and achieves state-of-the-art performance.",
}

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on various reasoning tasks. To further improve the performance, we propose MultiTool-CoT, a novel framework that leverages chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to incorporate multiple external tools, such as a calculator and a knowledge retriever, during the reasoning process. We apply MultiTool-CoT to the Task 2 dataset of NumGLUE, which requires both numerical reasoning and domain-specific knowledge. The experiments show that our method significantly outperforms strong baselines and achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Inaba, Tatsuro Kiyomaru, Hirokazu Cheng, Fei Kurohashi, Sadao
MultiTool-CoT: GPT-3 Can Use Multiple External Tools with Chain of Thought Prompting