Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models
Sample several reasoning paths and take the majority answer.
This research explores choosing an answer by comparing multiple generated reasoning attempts. It highlights a quality-versus-computation trade-off that should be evaluated on the intended task.
- Level
- Advanced
- Models
- any
- Category
- Prompting
- Tags
- reasoning, research
- Source date
- 2022-03-21
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
- Prerequisites
- Requires implementation experience or critical reading of technical methods and system trade-offs.
- Subcategory
- reasoning and structured output
- Region
- West
- Original language
- en
- Access
- free
- Resource reuse
- open: Source states by/4.0. Applies to the linked resource, not every referenced model or dataset. Facet definitions
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