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selfconsistency
mixedPython · CPUModel behavior & reasoningJuly 6, 2026
the question
Does self-consistency (majority vote over sampled CoT) beat greedy on GSM8K, and how does the gain scale with size?
what came out
Cross-model, exact-match oracle: it beats greedy on the 1.5B (+13 points, p=0.002) but the 0.5B's gain isn't significant. The benefit traces to answer-entropy -- the mechanism, not just the score.
method & receipts
- Result: mixed
- 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/selfconsistency