think

Definition

Producing intermediate reasoning before answering rather than emitting a conclusion immediately. The lineage runs from prompting a model to think step by step, through chain-of-thought, to models trained to spend more computation at inference time. Read it operationally, as a claim about computation rather than resemblance to human thought — and note that reasoning models may keep that computation internal or expose only a summary, so it is not always visible.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: Embodied-Navigator (TAMP-Nav) — Let the VLM Just Point, and Navigation Gets Both Faster and BetterEmbodied-Navigator: Point, Think, Memorize, and Align for Efficient Navigation