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CoBa: Cost-Effective Test-Time Scaling via Compute-Balanced Routing
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- CoBa is a routing policy that allocates inference compute across generation, verification, and stopping decisions to optimize test-time reasoning within fixed budgets.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building reasoning systems who need to balance multiple verification strategies and want to reduce inference costs on math and symbolic reasoning tasks.
- Watch out
- Results focus on specific math benchmarks; generalization to other domains and real-world deployment constraints remain unclear from this paper.
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