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Self-consistency refers to sampling multiple reasoning paths for the same question and taking the answer that appears most frequently; it requires no training and only consumes inference compute, and is often used as a low-cost baseline before reinforcement learning.
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An 11-Hour Reasoning Model Course in Practice: How Small Models Learn to Think
youtubeXun Zhu10/28/2026
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