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Many-Shot CoT-ICL: Making In-Context Learning Truly Learn

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Pith's one-line read Ordering demonstrations for smooth conceptual progression turns many-shot CoT-ICL into effective test-time learning on reasoning tasks.

desk verdict CDS gives a modest gain on one math task but the abstract leaves the ordering effect unisolated from demo selection. read the letter →

arxiv 2605.13511 v3 pith:A2CQIYS2 submitted 2026-05-13 cs.CL cs.AI

Tsz Ting Chung , Lemao Liu , Mo Yu , Dit-Yan Yeung This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords many-shotin-contextlearningchain-of-thoughtdemonstrationorderingreasoningtaskstest-timecurvilinearselection
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The paper examines many-shot chain-of-thought in-context learning on reasoning tasks and identifies properties distinct from non-reasoning cases. It interprets these as evidence that many-shot CoT-ICL functions as in-context test-time learning, leading to two principles: demonstrations should be easy for the model to understand and should be ordered to support smooth conceptual progression. Guided by these principles the authors introduce Curvilinear Demonstration Selection, an ordering method that produces gains of up to 5.42 percentage points on a math task with 64 demonstrations. The work reframes long context windows as structured curricula rather than retrieval buffers.

What carries the argument

Curvilinear Demonstration Selection (CDS), an ordering method that arranges demonstrations to support smooth conceptual progression from easier to more complex examples.

What would settle it

An experiment on the same math task with 64 demonstrations that uses random ordering or a non-curvilinear selection method and measures whether the 5.42-point gain disappears.

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Core claim

Viewing many-shot CoT-ICL as in-context test-time learning rather than scaled pattern matching yields the principles that demonstrations should be easy to understand and ordered for smooth conceptual progression; Curvilinear Demonstration Selection based on these principles produces up to a 5.42 percentage-point gain on a math task with 64 demonstrations.

Load-bearing premise

The performance gains come from the proposed ordering principles rather than from other aspects of how the demonstrations were chosen or from task-specific factors.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Many-shot CoT-ICL on reasoning tasks benefits when the context window is treated as a learning curriculum.
  • Performance on math reasoning improves when demonstrations follow a curvilinear ordering that matches the model's understanding.
  • Long context windows can serve as structured test-time curricula beyond simple pattern retrieval.
  • Distinctive scaling behaviors appear for both non-reasoning and reasoning-oriented models under many-shot CoT-ICL.

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  • The curvilinear ordering idea might extend to other reasoning domains if an automatic way to measure conceptual progression can be defined.
  • Models that already receive curriculum-style training during pretraining could show larger or smaller gains from CDS at test time.
  • Whether CDS helps on non-reasoning tasks depends on whether a meaningful progression dimension exists for those tasks.
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Summary. The paper studies many-shot chain-of-thought in-context learning (CoT-ICL) on reasoning tasks, identifying distinctive scaling properties compared to non-reasoning tasks and models. It reframes many-shot CoT-ICL as in-context test-time learning rather than pattern matching, proposes two principles (easy-to-understand demonstrations and smooth conceptual progression), and introduces Curvilinear Demonstration Selection (CDS) as an ordering method that yields up to 5.42 percentage-point gains on a math task with 64 demonstrations.

Significance. If the reported gains are shown to arise specifically from the ordering principles rather than demonstration selection, the work would provide a substantive reframing of long-context ICL as structured test-time learning, with implications for curriculum design in prompting. The empirical result on math tasks with many shots is a concrete contribution, though its attribution requires verification.

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  1. [Abstract / CDS description and experimental results] The abstract and method description attribute the 5.42 pp gain on the math task with 64 demonstrations to CDS ordering that enforces smooth conceptual progression (principle ii) after selecting easy demonstrations (principle i). No mention is made of controls that hold the demonstration set fixed while varying only the order (e.g., random permutation of the identical 64 examples versus CDS order). Without such isolation, the performance improvement cannot be unambiguously credited to the curvilinear progression rather than the choice of demonstrations, weakening the claim that many-shot CoT-ICL functions as structured in-context test-time learning.

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We thank the referee for this constructive comment on isolating the contribution of ordering. We agree that the current presentation does not fully separate the effects of demonstration selection from ordering, and we will add the requested control experiments in the revision.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / CDS description and experimental results] The abstract and method description attribute the 5.42 pp gain on the math task with 64 demonstrations to CDS ordering that enforces smooth conceptual progression (principle ii) after selecting easy demonstrations (principle i). No mention is made of controls that hold the demonstration set fixed while varying only the order (e.g., random permutation of the identical 64 examples versus CDS order). Without such isolation, the performance improvement cannot be unambiguously credited to the curvilinear progression rather than the choice of demonstrations, weakening the claim that many-shot CoT-ICL functions as structured in-context test-time learning.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit ablation holding the demonstration set fixed while varying only the order is necessary to attribute gains specifically to the curvilinear progression. CDS currently combines selection of easy-to-understand examples (principle i) with curvilinear ordering (principle ii). In the revised manuscript we will add results comparing (a) the CDS-selected set in random order versus (b) the same set in CDS order, on the same math task with 64 demonstrations. These controls will be reported alongside the existing results, with updated discussion clarifying the separate contributions of selection and ordering. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper reports an empirical study identifying properties of many-shot CoT-ICL, proposes CDS ordering guided by two principles, and measures a performance gain on a math task. No equations or derivations are presented that reduce to inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing for uniqueness theorems or ansatzes. The central result is an observed experimental outcome rather than a fitted parameter renamed as prediction or a self-definitional claim. The analysis remains self-contained via direct reporting of task results.

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While many-shot ICL achieves remarkable performance, prior studies of its scaling behavior have mainly focused on non-reasoning tasks. In this work, we study many-shot ICL on reasoning tasks, with a particular focus on many-shot chain-of-thought in-context learning (CoT-ICL). Analyzing across non-reasoning and reasoning tasks and across non-reasoning and reasoning-oriented LLMs, we identify several distinctive properties of many-shot CoT-ICL. We further interpret these findings by viewing many-shot CoT-ICL as in-context test-time learning rather than scaled pattern matching, and suggest two principles: (i) demonstrations should be easy for the target model to understand, and (ii) they should be ordered to support a smooth conceptual progression. Guided by the principle, we propose Curvilinear Demonstration Selection (CDS), a simple ordering method that yields up to a 5.42 percentage-point gain on a math task with 64 demonstrations. Overall, our results reframe the long context window from a retrieval buffer into a structured curriculum for in-context test-time learning.

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Figure 1. Reframing of CoT-ICL as in-context test-time learning. 1. Introduction In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform tasks by conditioning on a sequence of input-output demonstrations without updating their parame￾ters (Min et al., 2022; Von Oswald et al., 2023). Research has focused on improving ICL through strategies like se￾lecting effective demonstrations (Sorensen et al., 2022; Liu e… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Scaling disparity between model types on math reasoning tasks. Left: Llama 3.3 (non-reasoning LLM) shows negative gains. Right: QwQ (32B) and R1 (685 B) (reasoning LLM) shows clear positive scaling. Model geometry number theory DetectiveQA Qwen3-14B (en) 73.07 91.30 72.73 Qwen3-14B (dis) 65.76 88.15 72.73 Qwen3-8B (en) 67.01 84.63 69.48 Qwen3-8B (dis) 62.63 79.81 66.88 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Scaling disparity between task types. Performance (normalized accuracy) of non-reasoning LLMs on classification tasks (warm colors) versus reasoning tasks (cool colors). The x￾axis represents normalized accuracy (i.e., x−x¯ σx for accuracy x), while the y-axis indicates the number of in-context demonstrations. 4. Properties of CoT-ICL 4.1. Scaling with Reasoning Tasks Prior work reports that many-shot ICL yields rel… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Positive scaling of reasoning LLMs. The Qwen3 family (reasoning LLMs) demonstrates consistent performance improve￾ments with more demonstrations on math reasoning tasks. Left: Qwen3 (8B) Right: Qwen3 (14B) CoT-ICL for reasoning is unstable for non-reasoning LLMs and im…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Standard deviation of performance across five random demonstration orders on classification tasks (warm colors) ver￾sus reasoning tasks (cool colors), where nt corresponds to num￾ber theory. Results shown for Qwen2.5 (14B) (non-reasoning) and Qwen3 (14B) (reasoning). e…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Performance of two sets of self-generated in-context CoT, including the set filtered with only correct answer(cr) and the set filtered with only wrong answer(wr). crqwen14 is prompting the LLaMA model with the in-context CoT generated by Qwen 2.5 (14B). Left: Llama 3.1…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Performance of the first set of self-generated in-context CoT. firstqwen3(14b) is prompting the Qwen 3 (8B) model with the in-context CoT generated by Qwen 3 (14B). Left: Qwen 3 (8B) Right: Qwen 3 (14B) should depend on procedural content. This representation is design…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Performance with original (ori), similarity(sim) and dissimilar(dis) sets averaged across three non-reasoning LLMs. The area between the two sets is filled with colors, indicating the relative performance at each point. 20 60 100 20 45 70 BANKING77 Sim>Ori/Dis Original…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Performance with original (ori), similarity(sim) and dissimilar(dis) sets averaged across three non-reasoning LLMs. The area between the two sets is filled with colors, indicating the relative performance at each point. 20 60 100 20 45 70 BANKING77 Sim>Ori/Dis Original…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Performance with original (ori), similarity(sim) and dissimilar(dis) sets averaged across two reasoning LLMs. The area between the two sets is filled with colors, indicating the relative performance at each point. B. Statistical Robustness on a New ICL Subset We compu…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Performance with original (ori), similarity(sim) and dissimilar(dis) sets averaged across two reasoning LLMs. The area between the two sets is filled with colors, indicating the relative performance at each point. B. Statistical Robustness on a New ICL Subset We compu…
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Prompt for WSC task D. CDS: Details and Implementation D.1. Model Studies We design our experiments to isolate the effect of demon￾stration ordering in many-shot CoT-ICL. To this end, we focus on reasoning-oriented LLMs that exhibit a positive scaling trend with more …
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Prompt for WSC task We also control for confounding factors unrelated to order￾ing quality by using dataset-provided CoT rationales and answers, avoiding performance degradation due to incorrect or low-quality generated rationales (i.e., self-generated CoT in section …
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Prompt for BANKING77 task Given a question, predict the label of the question. You can only make predictions from the following categories: { LIST_OF_CATEGORIES} Please predict the intent category of the FINAL utterance with the provided demonstration example queries …
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Prompt for COPA task 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Prompt for NLU task The prompt for inference is presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_15.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Prompt for NLU task In the end of the response, add a summary ‘The answer is [answer ].’ Q: {question_1} A: {CoT_1} {answer_1} ... Q: {question_n} A: {CoT_n} {answer_n} ### Q: {question_t} ### A: Let’s think step by step [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Prompt for GSM8K task Write a response that appropriately completes the request and wrap the final answer inside \boxed{}. Problem: {question_1} Solution: {CoT_with_answer_1} ... Problem: {question_n} Solution: {CoT_with_answer_n} ### Problem: {question_t} ### Solutio…
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Unified prompt for MATH task Below is an instruction that describes a task.\n Select the correct option from A/B/C/D. Answer with ’The answer is {A/ B/C/D}.’ in the end of your response.\n\n" Question: {question_1} Context: {context_1} Options: A. {option_1_1} B. {opt…
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Prompt for DetectiveQA task 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_18.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Prompt for DetectiveQA task 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_18.png]

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Reviewed June 30, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.