Conceptthinking budget / 推理预算
Thinking Budget
A core mechanism in reasoning-enhanced large language models that defines the maximum number of tokens the model's internal chain-of-thought may consume before producing a final answer. A higher budget improves reasoning capability but increases computational cost.
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Oct 15
In evaluation, if the thinking budget is not fixed, scores of the same model are not comparable, and the budget effectively becomes a hidden hyperparameter.
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