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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