# Google Research — Teaching LLMs to reason like Bayesians

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-04T20:29:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/teaching-llms-to-reason-like-bayesians/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1364-teaching-llms-to-reason-like-bayesians

Google Research teaches LLMs to reason in a Bayesian manner by training them to mimic the predictions of an optimal Bayesian model, improving performance on a recommendation task and enabling generalization to other tasks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/teaching-llms-to-reason-like-bayesians/:

> We teach the LLMs to reason in a Bayesian manner by training them to mimic the predictions of the Bayesian model, which defines the optimal way to reason about probabilities.

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