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The core idea of inference-time compute is to have the model generate longer chains of thought at inference time, improving accuracy on complex tasks through self-verification and multi-path search, which has a methodological connection to the success of Monte Carlo Tree Search in game-playing AI—AlphaGo surpassed human players through large-scale tree search at inference time.
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