Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters

Think longer on hard prompts — and let difficulty decide how to spend the compute.

Snell et al. · arXiv 2024 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗

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Think longer on hard prompts — and let difficulty decide how to spend the compute.

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Snell et al. — arXiv 2024 (arXiv:2408.03314).

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