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// ∞ Reasoning & Test-Time Compute

Self-Consistency

Samples many reasoning paths and takes the majority answer.

自洽性投票 2022 Foundational core

IN PLAIN WORDS

Sample many CoT answers at higher temperature; answers reached by diverse paths are likelier correct. The simplest form of test-time scaling.

Used in: maj@k / cons@64 in reasoning evals

TIMELINE · prerequisites → this → what builds on it

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01Original paper

Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

Xuezhi Wang, Jason Wei, Dale Schuurmans, et al. · 2022

arXiv ↗ ✓ Verified · arXiv API

02Where it sits

Learn the left column first; the right column builds on this one.

Learn first

Self-Consistency

Then you can learn

Chain-of-Though…Test-Time Compu… Self-Consistency

Left: prerequisites · right: builds on this · dashed: related. Full map →

03Learning resources

Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.

04Where the course teaches it

On learning paths:Post-training & Reasoning Models

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