Increasing test-time compute through MCTS or rejection sampling yields diminishing logarithmic returns on reasoning benchmarks (e.g., AIME) after a 10x compute threshold, where token-level variance outweighs the logical gain of exhaustive path exploration.
Current reasoning benchmarks often report aggregate accuracy without factoring 'inference-compute-per-token', masking the fact that models like o3 effectively cost 3x per correct answer on AIME 2024 compared to high-efficiency specialized runners.
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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) provides the lowest latency and cost for standard logic, whereas Reflexion adds significant overhead (3-5x tokens) but outperforms CoT by up to 20% on complex multi-step debugging tasks.
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Increasing test-time computation via longer reasoning chains improves performance on complex logical tasks following a power-law, but saturates when the token count per reasoning step exceeds the model's effective context window capacity — necessitating dynamic pruning or halting mechanisms for production efficiency.