Glossary term
Glossary term
Architecture
Reasoning pattern that explores multiple possible solution paths.
Princeton/Google researchers demonstrated ToT achieving 74% success on Game of 24 vs 4% for standard prompting, by exploring multiple arithmetic paths in parallel and pruning dead ends.
A product strategy team uses a ToT agent to evaluate three market-entry approaches simultaneously (direct sales vs partnership vs self-serve) and selects the path with the highest scored feasibility + revenue potential.
An automated penetration-testing agent uses ToT to explore multiple vulnerability chains in parallel - SQL injection, auth bypass, and privilege escalation - scoring each path before selecting the most promising one.