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Self-Consistency

Sampling multiple CoT reasoning paths and taking the majority answer. Reduces variance and improves accuracy on reasoning tasks. Cost: N× more compute for N samples.

Where this is taught

• Voting, Self-Consistency, and Debate Topology — Phase 2: Coordination & Agreement
• Reflection & Self-Critique Agents — Phase 4: Multi-Agent Systems
• Hallucination Detection & Mitigation — Phase 2b: LLM-Specific Responsible AI

Related terms

Chain of Thought

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Chain of Thought (CoT) · Few-Shot Prompting · Zero-Shot · Prompt Engineering

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