# Analogical Prompting

> Analogical prompting asks the model to recall or generate relevant example problems and their solutions on its own before solving the target problem, removing the need for hand-written exemplars.

- Identifier: PTL-0036
- Category: Reasoning Elicitation
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/analogical-prompting/
- Introduced: 2023

## Description

Inspired by how people draw on analogous past experience, the self-generated examples are tailored to each problem rather than fixed for the whole task.

## Related terms

- [Few-shot Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/few-shot-prompting/)
- [Generated Knowledge Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/generated-knowledge-prompting/)

## Sources

- Yasunaga et al. (2023). Large Language Models as Analogical Reasoners. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01714

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Analogical Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0036). https://protologue.com/t/analogical-prompting/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)