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Self-Consistency Prompting (ANSWERED)

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Advanced reasoning technique: sampling multiple chain-of-thought paths and aggregating answers via majority vote or scoring.

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Self-consistency generates multiple independent reasoning traces (often with temperature > 0), then selects the final answer by majority vote or scoring across paths. It trades compute for accuracy on math, logic, and multi-step problems where a single greedy decode may fail.

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What is self-consistency prompting and how does it improve reasoning reliability?

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