Google Research presents Self-Consistency
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Presented Self-Consistency — samples multiple CoT paths and picks the answer they most often agree on
Why it matters
The start of the test-time sampling-and-voting lineage. GSM8K +10%, MultiArith +24%
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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