Thinking costs tokens: adding inference structure hurts performance below a token-budget threshold and helps above it
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.27506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adding inference structure to a language model lets it search, verify, and revise, but these actions consume the very budget they are supposed to use well. In this...
Original headline: "Thinking Costs Tokens: When More Structure is Worth the Price"
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