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cotbudget
confirmedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
How does a chain-of-thought token budget map to GSM8K accuracy across model sizes?
what came out
On two sizes, a low budget inverts the size ranking -- the smaller model wins when reasoning is starved. Exact-match oracle, independently verified.
method & receipts
- Result: confirmed
- Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
- Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
- Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
- Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.
→ read the code and re-run it
github.com/v-code01/cotbudget