Alpaca-CoT

Alpaca-CoT is an open research project focused on improving reasoning capabilities in language models through chain-of-thought training data. The project builds upon the Alpaca instruction-tuning approach by introducing datasets and methods that encourage models to produce intermediate reasoning steps when solving problems. Instead of generating answers directly, the model learns to produce logical reasoning sequences that lead to the final solution. This chain-of-thought supervision helps models perform better on tasks requiring structured reasoning, such as mathematics, logic puzzles, and analytical problem solving. The repository includes datasets, training scripts, and examples demonstrating how chain-of-thought data can be used to fine-tune language models. It also explores how reasoning traces generated by larger models can be distilled into smaller models.