Story
arxiv_cs_ai · Nov 10, 2026 · paper
Source brief
BARS: Budget-Aware Sequential Sampling with Refusal for Majority Identification under Unknown Distributions
arxiv.orgNov 10, 2026
original source linked
In brief
Repeated sampling with majority selection is an effective means of enforcing self-consistency in large language models. Recently, a variant has also been introduced that terminates early to save costs when the output distribution is favorable. But it still cannot yield a correct