Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

Sample many reasoning paths, take the majority answer — accuracy jumps with no training at all.

Wang et al. · ICLR 2023 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗

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Sample many reasoning paths, take the majority answer — accuracy jumps with no training at all.

Who published Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models, and where?

Wang et al. — ICLR 2023 (arXiv:2203.11171).

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