What does research say about: Self-consistency voting reduces reasoning errors?

Sampling 5 chain-of-thought paths and majority-voting the answer improves accuracy by 12-18% over single-path CoT on arithmetic and commonsense reasoning. (Source: Wang et al., 'Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning', Google Research, 2023). Without self-consistency, a single reasoning path may follow an incorrect chain despite the model being capable of the correct one.

Self-consistency voting reduces reasoning errors.

Context & Methodology

Without self-consistency, a single reasoning path may follow an incorrect chain despite the model being capable of the correct one.

Applicable Use Cases

workflow

Applies To

openaianthropicgoogle

Primary Impact

quality

Confidence Level

High

Platform Status

Planned

Implementation Effort

medium

Recommendation

test

Execution Priority

Dependencies & Conflicts

Depends on:

rel-087

Conflicts with:

econ-003

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