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effortfrontier

null resultPython · CPUInference & servingJuly 5, 2026

the question

Adaptive self-consistency promises to spend compute only where the model is unsure. Does a cheap policy actually capture that?

what came out

Honest negative: on GSM8K against the exact gold label, a cheap greedy allocation does not beat uniform at matched budget -- despite ~9x oracle headroom. The gain is real; a simple policy doesn't reach it.

method & receipts

  • Result: null result — an honest negative, reported as it came out.
  • Reproducible one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • 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/effortfrontier