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Self-Consistency

Ask the same question N times (temp>0), majority-vote the most frequent answer.

2 hours1 resources1 prereqs

Built on top of CoT. N parallel calls instead of one (5-20), each with a different reasoning path; aggregate.

Gives 10-15% extra accuracy on math benchmarks at N× cost.

Practical: Suitable for critical decisions/calculations, overkill for chat.

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Self-Consistency · Prompt Engineer Roadmap | Şükrü Yusuf Kaya