We also find that existing reasoning frameworks are not as
effective as CLoT in enhancing LoT ability. Fig. 8 com-
pares CLoT with CoT [2, 3], CoT-SC [83], and prompted-
based LoT (PLoT) with the prompt “let’s think outside the
box”. The results reveal that CoT-alike frameworks do not
enhance LoT performance of LLMs, while CLoT demon-
Let’sThinkOutsidetheBox