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Layer self-consistency on chain-of-thought for hard reasoning.

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For non-reasoning models on math and logic, sampling multiple CoT paths and majority-voting lifts GSM8K by +17.9% over a single greedy pass. Highest-ROI accuracy lever for reasoning-heavy prompts. But skip it entirely on native reasoning models, they already reason internally and gain nothing, so you'd just pay 5x for the same answer.

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