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Confidence-Weighted Token Set Cover for Early Hypothesis Pruning in Self-Consistency
Md Arafat Sultan · Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
摘要
Despite its simplicity and efficacy, the high token expenditure of self-consistency can limit its practical utility. We investigate whether early hypothesis pruning can improve the token efficiency of self-consistency for long chain-of-thought reasoning tasks, while preserving its parallelism. Co...