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How does the self-consistency method improve chain-of-thought answers?

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  1. Ask the model if it is sure
  2. Sample many reasoning paths, take the majority answer
  3. Make the model reason only once, greedily

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References

  1. Wang et al., Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models (arXiv 2203.11171) arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171 Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. Kojima et al., Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners (arXiv 2205.11916) arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916 Checked 2026-10-10.

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