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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