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Test-Time Compute

Additional computation spent during inference, such as longer reasoning or multiple samples, to improve answer quality.

Definition

Scaling test-time compute lets a model think longer, sample and verify, or search over solutions. It trades latency and cost for accuracy on hard problems.

Exam tip

Spending more inference compute improves hard-task accuracy at the cost of latency and tokens.

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