Word of the Day
Self-Consistency
Self-consistency runs a reasoning prompt several times and takes the most common answer, improving reliability on hard problems.
Get it freeSelf-consistency is a technique that pairs with chain-of-thought: instead of trusting a single reasoned answer, you generate several independent attempts (often at a higher temperature) and take the answer that appears most often. Correct reasoning tends to converge; one-off errors don't.
It costs more (multiple generations) but meaningfully improves accuracy on math and logic. A lightweight manual version: ask the model to solve a hard problem three different ways and reconcile any disagreement.
Related: chain of thought prompting · prompt chaining · temperature
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