// ∞ 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
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.
Left: prerequisites · right: builds on this · dashed: related. Full map →
03Learning resources
Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.
Explainers
04Where the course teaches it
On learning paths:Post-training & Reasoning Models
For AI / data
- Verification: verified, checked 2026-10-21.
- JSON: /api/learn/algorithms.json (id:
self-consistency)