Why methods like CoT are considered as post-training techniques?

[Boltzmachine]

Since there are not training in methods like ToT, CoT.

[Tajamul21]

Great question! Methods like CoT (Chain-of-Thought) are considered post-training because they don't involve modifying the model's weights. Instead, they guide the model's reasoning at inference time by prompting it to generate intermediate steps, improving performance without any additional training.

[Boltzmachine]

improving performance without any additional training.

As you said, they do not require additional training, so I am confused why they are considered post-"training" 😂