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New Adaptive Self-Consistency method boosts LLM efficiency with distribution-valued feedback

Researchers have developed a new method called Adaptive Self-Consistency (ASC) that improves the efficiency of large language models (LLMs) by leveraging distribution-valued feedback. Unlike traditional self-consistency which treats LLMs as black boxes, ASC utilizes the log-probabilities of model outputs to identify the most likely answer with fewer sampling trajectories. The proposed ASC-D algorithm achieves this by sequentially sampling trajectories and stopping once a desired confidence level for the modal answer is reached. This approach demonstrates significant reductions in trajectory usage, with experiments on MMLU-Redux showing 46.4% to 95.6% fewer trajectories compared to existing methods, while maintaining high accuracy. AI

IMPACT This method could lead to more efficient LLM inference, reducing computational costs and enabling faster responses.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new method for improving LLM efficiency. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Adaptive Self-Consistency method boosts LLM efficiency with distribution-valued feedback

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jingkai Huang, Yunfan Zhang, Will Ma, Weihua Zhou, Zhengyuan Zhou ·

    Adaptive Self-Consistency: From Black-Box Sampling to Distribution-Valued Feedback

    arXiv:2609.38931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-consistency samples many reasoning trajectories and aggregates their final answers, treating the LLM as a black box that returns one answer per trajectory. Yet the final answer of each trajectory is sampled from a softmax vec…