# Self-Discover

> Self-Discover has the model compose a task-specific reasoning structure by selecting, adapting, and combining general reasoning modules, such as critical thinking or step-by-step analysis, before solving instances of the task.

- Identifier: PTL-0037
- Category: Reasoning Elicitation
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/self-discover/
- Introduced: 2024

## Description

The structure is discovered once per task and then reused, so it costs far fewer inference calls than sampling-heavy methods like self-consistency.

## Related terms

- [Chain-of-Thought Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/chain-of-thought/)
- [Meta-Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/meta-prompting/)

## Sources

- Zhou et al. (2024). Self-Discover: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03620

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Self-Discover. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0037). https://protologue.com/t/self-discover/

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