# Chain-of-Verification

> Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) reduces hallucination by having the model draft an answer, plan verification questions about its claims, answer those questions independently, and then produce a corrected final answer.

- Identifier: PTL-0049
- Category: Self-Critique & Verification
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/chain-of-verification/
- Also known as: CoVe
- Introduced: 2023

## Description

Answering the verification questions without seeing the original draft keeps the model from simply repeating its own errors.

## Related terms

- [Hallucination](https://protologue.com/t/hallucination/)
- [Self-Refine](https://protologue.com/t/self-refine/)
- [Maieutic Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/maieutic-prompting/)

## Sources

- Dhuliawala et al. (2023). Chain-of-Verification Reduces Hallucination in Large Language Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Chain-of-Verification. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0049). https://protologue.com/t/chain-of-verification/

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