Evidence item

For tasks with verifiable correct answers, spending more inference compute reliably improves accuracy. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Reasoning Models & Test-Time Compute – awesome-ai-interviews · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:36ce8b71f29a7d2d6903741869c3d0d2ef811bf0d86d5a7322170d50ad2e09f6

for tasks with verifiable correct answers, spending more tokens thinking at inference reliably improves accuracy — similar to how a human does better on a math exam with scratch paper vs. answering immediately.