AI Architecture & Systems

Test-Time Compute and Inference Strategies

6.17.1Chain-of-Thought and Explicit Reasoning#

6.17.2Self-Consistency, Best-of-N, and Multi-Sample Selection#

6.17.3Verifiers, Reward-Guided Search, and Reranking#

6.17.4Tree Search, Planning, and Multi-Step Problem Solving#

6.17.5Adaptive Reasoning Budget and Early Termination#

6.17.6Inference-Time Scaling and Compute Allocation#