Techniques to improve reliability
Results
When the authors applied this technique to a Common Sense Q&A dataset, they found that STaR outperformed both chain-of-thought prompting alone (73% > 37%) and fine-tuning alone (73% > 60%):

STaR results
Source: STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning by Eric Zelikman and Yujuai Wu et al. (2022)

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