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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