self-consistency-selects-most-common-cot-answer
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Created 2026-06-21T09:50:10+00:00
Self-consistency prompting runs multiple chain-of-thought rollouts and selects the most common conclusion as the final answer
Summary
The idea is that if you ask a model to work through the same problem several independent times and it keeps landing on the same answer, that convergence is a stronger signal of correctness than any single attempt. This gives the system a built-in reliability check that doesn't require outside verification, since the model effectively votes with itself across multiple reasoning paths.