Google Research presents Self-Consistency
Presented Self-Consistency — samples multiple CoT paths and picks the answer they most often agree on
Why it matters
The start of the test-time sampling-and-voting lineage. GSM8K +10%, MultiArith +24%
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week